Word: docs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mike Monroney held his press conferences in the back of a furniture store named Doc and Bill's, which he had inherited from his father. For the past twelve years he had been a Congressman; now he was trying to take Elmer's Senate seat away from...
...America beamed to every part of the globe. Satchmo was particularly cheery because he had just learned that he did not have ulcers; all he needed was to stay off his favorite food, red beans & rice. "They X-rayed me every way but running," he said, "then the doc told me I'm straight-that's my best birthday present...
This Reckless Breed of Men, by Robert Glass Cleland. A lively, well-doc umented tribute to the bold, restless, beaver-trapping mountain men whose ex ploits (1820-40) helped to push the frontier across the Rocky Mountains and into the Far West. First-rate Americana (TIME, April...
...play tries hard to be honest, manages in places to be effective, has a fierce moment or two, as when at the end Doc clings for help, like a drowning man, to the wife who has made him drown. And as Lola and Doc, Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer prove a valiant acting team, bring a great deal that is human, perceptive, vivid to their roles...
...even a very interesting, play. It makes plain enough what it wants to do, but never actually does it, never communicates the awful internal bleeding of mismated lives, the blundering wastefulness of life itself. Possibly Lola is too shallow to allow of much probing. But the more complicated, frustrated Doc does need-to be probed. For one thing, is he the tragic victim of a single mistake, or a weak man almost bound to fail? Playwright Inge tends to substitute mere sympathy for insight, and to employ those little touches that, though meant to be telling, are just the worn...