Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happiest Millionaire (with Victor Jory). The first tryout was Sweet and Sour, by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke. It proved to be just one more play about the younger generation's attempt to deal with an intractable old father. The authors obviously thought they were writing the Jewish counterpart of Life With Father, but their play will never have 3183 performances on Broadway. They fell into most of the traps that Schulman avoided in A Hole in the Head. The old Jew was played by Melvyn Douglas, who is having a second career these days by taking on "character" parts...
...fourth annual meeting of the Atlantic Treaty Assembly will be held in Boston and vicinity during the week beginning Sept. 21. The Boston Regional Conference on NATO Affairs will sponsor the meeting along with its New York counterpart...
...General Eisenhower's political assistant in North Africa after the invasion (his British counterpart on Ike's staff was Harold Macmillan), Murphy masterminded U.S. negotiations with Vichy's devious Admiral Darlan, helped procure a ceasefire in Algeria and Morocco, saved thou sands of U.S. and British soldiers' lives -and was severely criticized by U.S. liberals. Sample: "He is an Irish Catholic," said the New Republic. "Obviously his relations with the extreme right in French politics were warm." Dwight Eisenhower felt differently. He awarded Murphy the Distinguished Service Medal, later wrote of him: "Affable, friendly, exceedingly shrewd...
...Paris-the work of Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi et al.-was introduced to the U.S. at a Manhattan exhibition famed ever since as the 1913 "Armory Show." This summer the U.S. has sent to Europe a show of American abstract expressionist paintings that the sponsors consider, at last, the counterpart of the 1913 show. The abstract expressionists have made their impact on the U.S. art world (some collectors are willing to pay up to $30.000 for a drip painting by Jackson Pollock) and have already stirred up interest abroad (some European collectors and gallery owners are now shopping in Manhattan...
...Reliefers. Duren and his National League counterpart, the Phillies' 24-year-old Dick Farrell, are helping change long-established ideas about relief pitchers. Traditionally, reliefers are crafty veterans who can pitch only a couple of innings, rely on cunning to get out of tight spots. Today Duren and Farrell are the best in the business by powering the ball past the hitters. Farrell's earned-run average (2.59) is third best in the league, and the big (6 ft. 3 in., 192 lbs.) righthander has saved nine games for the seventh-place Phillies. But for sheer speed, Duren...