Word: fields
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...have often wondered whether people recognize that major achievement is possible in movies outside the field of acting. Your [June 12] article on Darryl Zanuck . . . was a serious approach to a Hollywood biography, instead of the "intellectual wise guy" attitude that is almost standard with magazines...
Over the last quarter-mile, without even seeming to raise its beat, smooth-stroking Washington pulled away easily from the field, won by 2% lengths. Seconds later, a cluster of shells swept across the finish line. While regatta officials reserved final decision, the judges crossed their fingers and called it an all-West finish: second, California, third, Stanford, whose crew is not officially recognized by its own university...
...approach shot within nudging distance of the hole, wound up with a winning 16-under-par for the tournament and $3,000. Tired little Ben Hogan, who had squeezed Winner Mangrum out of the U.S. Open playoff the week before, just went through the motions, finished eleventh in a field...
When David ("Tommy") Stern bought the New Orleans Item eleven months ago, he had high hopes of uprooting the morning Times-Picayune and the evening States from their dominating position in the New Orleans newspaper field. But Northerner Stern found that Southerner Leonard Kimball Nicholson * had rooted his two newspapers as firmly as sugar cane; Meanwhile Stern's heavy investments in a bigger staff and a new Sunday edition failed to make the expected handsome payoff: in recent weeks, Stern fired or dropped 13 staffers, was reportedly losing heavily on his Sunday paper. Last week the Item (circ...
...screeched past in France's National Air Fete. President of the Republic Vincent Auriol sat pleasantly and peacefully in his box, a study in pearl grey. Then, suddenly, a little man dressed all in white, wearing a white baseball cap and carrying two paddles walked on to the field. It was Choreographer Lifar...