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...performance by Alec Guinness is a major event (though one may, as it turns out, be more major than another). For Guinness, together with Brando and Gielgud, constitute the reigning triumvirate of English-speaking actors...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Alec Guinness Excels in 'The Scapegoat' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

...waterfall exist if no one is there to hear it?) Then there is the matter of the booth's dimensions, variously reported as 3 feet by 3 feet by 7 feet and as 32 inches by 32 inches by 7 feet. Most booths have the latter dimensions (see Alec Beil, Specifications and Measurements for the Construction of Telephone Booths in the Continental United States, vol.1...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Many in a Phone Booth? | 7/23/1959 | See Source »

Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest and most adult dialogue ever to come across the screen. As an aging mistress, Simone Signoret gives a devastating performance that justifiably won the Cannes Festival's award for the "best performance by an actress." Named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recommended . . . | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Alec Bell, who was end coach of the Varsity football squad this fall, will coach the J.V.'s for the second time. Assisting him wil be Bob Hastings, the Varsity shortstop two years ago. Hastings played baseball at Harvard for three years, and was All-American in his Senior year. This is his first year coaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Baseball Team to Meet B.U. | 4/17/1959 | See Source »

...other matches went to Yale, as the Crimson's Nick Estabrook, King Holmes and Rick Sullivan met defeat. Estabrook lost to Tim Welles in a close 4-3 match, while Holmes was pinned by Alec Slaughter in 4:35. Sullivan, returning to action after a knee injury, was defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Wrestlers Defeat Varsity at Yale, 17-9, As Foster Noble Win | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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