Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dallas, Baylor over Southern Methodist, 3-0, with a fourth-quarter field goal, to put the foot back in football for the pass-happy Southwest Conference and to hand S.M.U., voted the top team in the country a month ago, its third loss in four games...
...local production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, Publisher George Bannerman Dealey called him on the carpet for saying nice things of a play about a prostitute. Rosenfield convinced Dealey that he had a right to express his own opinion and has had a free hand ever since. Now he also covers radio, TV, records and nightclubs...
...Federal Reserve Board last week found that its credit curbs were beginning to check consumer buying, thus ease some of the pressure that set prices soaring. Nobody felt the brake more than U.S. automobile dealers. In a month, their stocks of cars on hand had risen from an average of eight per dealer to eleven, and many began knocking off some of their commissions in order to clear out 1950 stocks before the new models arrived. And where many carmakers had been privately talking higher prices for the new cars, Ford Motor Co., at least, decided against it. In bringing...
...strings. The Casadesus family sat down to their closely banked pianos, Robert on one side, facing Gaby and Jean. Then, radiating their pleasure, they played Bach's concerto with all of the vigor, grace, delicacy and perfect teamwork it deserves. Carnegie Hall gave them a Thanksgiving hand in return...
Jones, incidentally, drew almost as much attention as Massios. He is a balding, bespectacled gentleman whose mild manner belies his reputation as "the first man show, and during a lull in proceedings emptied his pockets of loose change and gave a demonstration of head and hand balances, including, of course, his specialty. After a couple of trials, he was able to remain two or three seconds on his thumbs, which are normally quite ordinary...