Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American intellectual to be rolling up the scroll. The Good Life was a matter of well-planned getting and spending, and all the answers were to be found written down, from Hegel to Freud to Keynes. Professor John Dewey and his fellow philosophers were preaching a heady trial & error pragmatism. The up-to-date intellectual was so uninterested in Christianity that he rarely found it worth while even to be antireligious...
Catcher "Bing" Crosby, the next hitter, tapped one weakly to the mound. Tech pitcher Marshall Rogan threw home rather than to first the ball going past the ear of his astonished receiver. Two more runs counted on the error, which was charged to the catcher. Ray Macsaka, the third baseman, drove in the final two runs with a clean single to left...
Crooner Dick Haymes, who sat out World War II in the U.S. as a draft-exempt neutral alien, got final word that he is now an undesirable alien. A U.S. immigration official ordered Haymes deported to his native Argentina. Dick's thoughtless error: he illegally re-entered the U.S. last year after a flying visit to Hawaii, where he trysted with Cinemactress Rita Hayworth, now his fourth bride. Last week, back in Manhattan after two futile days of rushing around the capital and trying to talk to the right people, Haymes took Rita nightclubbing. They were joined by table...
...that they had received a total of 51,361 former Roman Catholics into their churches within the past ten years. Projecting his sample, Poling got a nationwide estimate of 4,144,366 Catholic-to-Protestant converts in a decade. Writes Episcopalian Will Oursler:* "Even when allowances are made for error, the total national figure could hardly be less than two or three million and in all probability runs closer to five million...
...bright young man permits his wife to support him, but has to pay her so much attention in return that he is driven from keyboard to bar. In the end, of course. Actress Taylor sees the error of her ways and builds up the husband she has torn down, just in time for a gigantic Rachmaninoff rag at the finale...