Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...read the article with pride, admiration and a lump in my throat. It convinces me more that only in America can the often pathetic trials of a common man lead so often to a tremendous success story...
...potash. Fire bombs were tossed. A Negro ex-convict named Charlie Davis led a shooting raid on a white filling station, got shot in the head himself and was killed when his car crashed into a utility pole. Negro gangs gave up fighting among themselves, banded together against the common enemy and roamed the streets looking for trouble. In a single day 50 people were injured and 90 put in jail...
...common touch, Blackpool's history is alight with great names of show business-W. C. Fields. Bea Lillie, Danny Kaye, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead. But none of them could rewrite the Blackpool creed. "You can't be chichi in Blackpool" is how one Blackpudlian phrases it. "It's not art for art's sake here. It's art for Pete's sake, and Pete owns the town...
Susskind has flirted with Hollywood in the past, but he had insufficient power to make his presence felt. After fruitless chats with M-G-eminence Benny Thau, he came away saying: "The only thing we have in common is breathing." His current mission, as he sees it. is to light Hollywood's way out of its cultural cave. After A Raisin in the Sun, he has contracted to do three more films for Columbia, is considering doing the life of Evita Peron, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Rich Boy and Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow...
...York World-Telegram and Sun, divesting himself of all executive responsibility and authority. Said Roy Howard, who for several years had been removing himself from management of the Scripps-Howard chain, as he looked back on more than 60 years in journalism: "Newspapers, I like to think, are the common denominator of popular thinking. In the old days newspapers thundered at their readers. Now they are down among them...