Word: circuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty lockerroom-the camera turns up an arresting assortment of local plug-uglies. Some of the character sketches are deftly sardonic; others-notably of ringside sadists-are heavily overdrawn...
Wall Street & Walkouts. Dry Messiah is Richmond Newspaper Editor Virginius Dabney's careful and stolid look at a puritan's progress from circuit-riding man-of-God to arrogant director of a nation's morals. It does little to explain the man or the moral climate in which he was bred, but it is a useful and embarrassing reminder that for over a decade Cannon's narrow vision and flinty prohibitionist zeal were among the most persuasive forces in U.S. politics...
...week long, the candelabra and chilled-wine circuit hummed with hostesses plotting and providing. Mostly it was the embassies that entertained the visitors; being conscious of the high importance of congressional favor, they also invited key Senators. Robert Taft's attempt to cut EGA authorizations (see The Congress) set off Senate debates which lasted until 11 p.m., and spoiled dinners all along Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row. Many a hostess who invited a Senator had to settle for just his wife...
...League is expected to be a race this year between Dartmouth and Yale. The Indians, in annexing the Sidney E. Hutchinson Cup (symbolic of Ivy League supremacy) last spring, took their fourth loop title since 1930. The Indians triumphed in 1930, 1935, 1938, and also in 1939 when the circuit operated on an informal basis. They won seven out of eight games last season, bowing only to Yale, which has also copped four Ivy League championships. Thus, both Dartmouth and the Elis will be out to break the 4-4 tie in League crowns...
This year marks the second in which the circuit will be run on a ten-team setup, with both service academies and Brown back in the fold. The closest Harvard has come to winning a loop title was in 1936 when it shared honors with Dartmouth. This year it may upset the apple cart. You never can tell