Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...whole thing is shoddily fitted out with desperate gags, limp and feeble bits of farce, and characters who make depressing conversationalists. As satire on an ill-advised lust for money, it is merely the potboiler calling the kettle black...
...Relapse contains, however, the brightest of his characters, the fatuous coxcomb Lord Foppington. All prance, prattle and fizz, Foppington is far more concerned about the location of a coat pocket than the loss of a wife.† British Actor Cyril Ritchard (Love for Love, Make Way for Lucia) blends a born sense of comedy with a brilliant sense of style. His Foppington is no mere lace-handkerchief dangler, but the eager performer of an idiotic role, with a need and a genius for catching the limelight. Ritchard understands that the key to Foppington and his kind is not an ambiguity...
Rule No. 1 for a football official, says Swaffield, "is to make an immediate decision and never take any back talk. You have to act with confidence and calmness. The official who bellows at the boys just makes them antagonistic." Swaffield prefers to kid the players along, make them loosen up and remember that football is just a game, not total warfare...
...anyone wants to build a low-power nuclear reactor, the Atomic Energy Commission will tell him how. Last week the AEC, jointly with Britain and Canada, announced a new "Declassification Guide," which permits the release of such information. Still restricted, of course, is information about large-scale reactors (which make plutonium) and about atomic weapons themselves...
...market American-Canadian's stock, a new company called First International Securities Co., Inc. had been set up. On an investment of only $10,000, said Goldstein, First International Securities stood to make a $250,000 commission if all the stock was sold...