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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not shake the fear that he might never recover completely. After his death, attendants found evidence of the lonely struggle of his wounded mind: a book, opened to Sophocles' "Chorus from Ajax," lay beside his bed. He had been reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Patriot's Reward | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Edward Finnegan makes an impressive and pompous Agamemnon. Gregg Martin, as Achilles, is quite as conceited and despicably treacherous as intended. And John Peters plays a delightfully stupid and proud Ajax...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: Troilus and Cressida | 12/9/1948 | See Source »

...problem of eliminating Ajax violently but gracefully from the east of characters of Troilns and Cressida has been giving the Harvard Theater Workshop more trouble than the rest of the play put together recently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Swords in Sundry Directions . . . | 11/27/1948 | See Source »

Three main roles of Paris, Ajax, and Diomedes have not yet been cast, Director Peter Temple '47 2B announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cast is Ready for December Run of HTW's 'Troilus' | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

...Allen's Alley, satchel-eyed Fred Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy. Cassidy is gone for good, but the Senator will tub-thump occasionally during the election campaign. The vacancies have been let to a mysterious Russian, Sergei Strogonoff, and to a new rhyming character reminiscent of an old Alley resident, Falstaff Openshaw. Mrs. Nussbaum and Titus Moody have renewed their leases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Comes September | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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