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Word: pottinger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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A crack shot, Ruark has given up big-game hunting, explains: "I've just lost the taste for seeing things die." He still rambles off on safaris, photographing the big game and potting birds for dinner. (His barstool story is that his white hunter imitates a lovelorn female rhino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sweet Smell of Success | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

You state, further, that Falk presented "the greatest American stars in the greatest plays for many, many years." This speaks very poorly indeed for your judgement and taste. For eleven years, Falk gave us seasons that each contained only one or two plays of stature amid a morass of mediocrity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Open Letter to AlCapp | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

"One thing I can assure you," said Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene two years ago. "There will be no miracles in my next play." To the evident delight of first-nighters at London's Globe Theater last week, Roman Catholic Author Greene proved as good as his word. The Complaisant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER ABROAD: Black Comedy | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Ever since British settlers and visiting aristocrats began potting away at elephants in the pristine wilds of East Africa at the turn of the century, the world's biggest unwalled zoo has been an almost exclusive preserve for the rich, the idle and the professional romantics, ranging from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bwana Brummel | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

This summer marked the thirteenth season of the Boston Summer Theatre. In its first eleven years, it averaged one or two works of top quality each season amidst a mass of mediocrity. Last summer producer Lee Falk offered nothing but plays of high quality--Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

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