Word: thing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...running around and yelling, some funny, some not; Coburn sits on a pie, and squirts water in various directions; Marilyn Monroe, impersonating a blonde secretary, tells Grant, "Mr. Oxley's been complaining about my punctuation, so I've been careful to get here before nine"; the thing ends with Grant and Miss Rogers in a snugly marital clinch...
...word from Jack that the Kennedy announcement for the presidential nomination would come on that day, he gallantly moved his ceremony forward three days. After all, everybody and his brother by this time knew that both men had for months been rushing headlong for the nomination, and the worst thing they could do would be to blanket each other's announcement headlines...
...critic wrote: "Camus has forced man to the mirror. Good or so long as he writes, there will be no rest." Rest is precisely the thing which can make irrevocable man's slavery. And we can justly fear that without the relentless voice of Camus, the temptation to abandon the struggle is a little nearer to being overpowering...
...thing that Chairman Kirby was able to salvage in the suits was a $15 million refinancing plan that had been held up by Phillips ever since 1955. Alleghany's management wanted to refinance $15 million worth of corporate debts with another $15 million collateral loan from seven New York banks, while Phillips contended that Alleghany should liquidate part of its assets to retire the notes. Last week a special appellate division of the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that the financing arrangement involved no question of law but was merely a matter of "managerial discretion." Said Alleghany Chairman Kirby, happy...
Middle of the Night. A wise, touching description of a love affair between a middle-aged man (Fredric March) and a girl in her 20s (Kim Novak). Actor March is superb, and the script is probably the best thing Playwright Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky has ever done (TIME, June...