Word: sellout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach Earl Brown doesn't feel too badly about losing to, for the Badgers have one of the best teams he has ever seen and in all-American forward Johnny Kotz the "player of the year." The game was played in Milwaukee on New Year's Eve before a sellout crowd...
...completely swamped the theater. Despite the terrific jump in productions, musicals have not multiplied: ten last season, ten this. Of three U.S. clicks in London, one-The Man Who Came to Dinner-is farce, but Claudia is semiserious, and Watch on the Rhine wholly so. Shakespeare was a sellout when John Gielgud revived Macbeth in July. Shaw has been a hit since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill, a Leigh fan, has seen it twice.) John Gielgud has revived Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is a smash, plans...
Square-shouldered Painter Austin, 34, has earned his living as an advertising-layout man and a professional sparring partner, has exhibited his paintings in public only since 1938. Since then every one of his exhibitions has been a virtual sellout, and seven leading U.S. museums have added Austins to their permanent collections. His Europa and the Bull and Lady of the Windbell are shown on this page...
...China war by retaining only part of China. If Japan will get completely out, then there is no difficulty in the Pacific which cannot be quickly settled. If Japan will not get completely out of China, then there can be no "thoroughgoing settlement" unless the U.S. attempts a sellout of China...
...Samuel and Tom, although no longer black. In three out of Masked Ball's five acts, the scenery (by one Mstislav Dobujinski) was the traditional Metropolitan mud color. But the 18th-Century costumes were excellent. The production cost about $35,000. The opening night was an $18,000 sellout...