Word: alan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Delicately balancing his fantasy with realistic psychological probing, Harold Wendell Smith shown skill and imagination equally in "The Fireman's Hat," though the ending is somewhat unsatisfying. Where Smith succeeds in avoiding obviousness and pompous language in portraying a character, Alan Friedman's "All Truth Is a Lie" partly fails. Starting with an interesting and mature idea, 'Friedman has constructed a somewhat nebulous story in which the author's manipulations are all too evident. The writing is good, but the Virginia Woolf-ish musing on Life and the nature of Time, though well-adapted to the story, is overworked...
Brigadoon (music by Frederick Loewe; book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the name of a very odd Scottish village-one that long ago miraculously vanished, but reappears for a single day every hundred years. Just as the village comes to life one 1946 spring morning, a pair of young American hunters stumble spang upon its 18th Century market place-and the season's most engaging fantasy gets underway...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough tried to restrain Lewis until the question of his right to call off the contract could be settled by the courts. Goldsborough ordered him. not to call the strike. Lewis called the strike anyhow, arguing that the Norris-LaGuardia Act took away the court's authority to enjoin workers in a labor dispute. Obediently his miners, nearly 600,000 of them, walked out. Goldsborough convicted him of contempt and the case went to the Supreme Court...
...came a sharp thunderclap from Churchill: "This is a matter of life and death; will the Colonial Secretary not get off and send his telegram now?" Creech-Jones retreated, a few minutes later slipped out and sent his telegram. (Result: the execution was postponed and Gold Coast Governor Sir Alan Burns huffily threatened to resign over this kibitzing by the House...
Meet, Yale, and pool records went under beneath the flailing arms of Eli's Allen Stack in 150-yard backstroke with 1:33.4. The former Yale record was notched by Alan Ford, free-style ace, at New Haven in 1944, taking the water on his back for variety...