Word: mousetrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) to a seemingly endless blossoming of new theatrical talent, Londoners now are suffering through a period of drought. According to TIME Correspondent Horace Judson, the crackle of sere and yellow revivals is in the air. Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is still running in what is advertised as its "16th mind-boggling year." Among the musicals in town are a revival of The Boy Friend (1953) and an exhumation of The Desert Song (1926). George Bernard Shaw has been revived at least ten times during the past three years; Irene...
...involved even deigned to take notice when Agatha Christie's comedy-thriller, The Mousetrap, passed its 6,000th London performance last week (v. a measly 2,238 for former British record holder Chu Chin Chow). Since opening night in 1952, more than 2,000,000 people have bought tickets to the tiny (435 seats) Ambassadors' Theatre, and 97 actors have peopled the play's eight roles. "Just about everybody in England has seen it except the Queen," says Producer Peter Saunders, "and she thinks she's seen it." Author Christie, 76, has given no interview...
...signature on a Communist-front petition accusing the U.S. of atrocities in Viet Nam. This time Peter, 18, has teamed up with his young brother, Lars Brandt, 16, to play in a film version of Günter Grass's neo-Gothic novel, Cat and Mouse. The mousetrap is that Lars, as Joachim Mahlke, the adolescent hero of the story, appears in one scene wearing bathing trunks and twirling an Iron Cross, Germany's highest medal for bravery. Germans grumbled about the "tastelessness" of that little bit, as well as some explicitly sexual scenes, and the Interior Ministry...
...pronounced Pehleh), the Babe Ruth of soccer, a man who dribbles as daintily as a woman knits and then with a kick that could fell a rhino drives the ball into the net so fast the eye cannot follow it. Portugal finally does the dirty deed with a ferocious mousetrap: the man in front of Pele kicks his knee at the same instant the man behind him kicks his ankle. He goes down like a speared panther, and the focus shifts to Eusebio, the green-skinned, inscrutable Portuguese superstar...
...classic case of a company that needed to find a better mousetrap -for the second time. Chicago's American Hair & Felt Co. introduced felt carpet underpadding in the '20s and cornered the market, but in the early 1960s it was nearly trampled by the consumer stampede to sponge rubber. Today the company, renamed Ozite Corp.,† is bounding back. Sales rose from $11.7 million in 1964 to $18.8 million last year, and are expected to reach $35 million in 1966. Earnings quadrupled to $892,000 along the way. Ozite's better mousetrap: indoor-out door rugs...