Word: anna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amidst the confused maneuvers of the Berlin impasse, some 40 members of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Assembly found time one evening last week to give a small party. Held in a suite in Paris' Hotel Crillon, it was in celebration of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's 64th birthday. Mrs. Roosevelt was late...
Widow's Lot. At 64, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has become, perhaps, the best-known woman in the world. Three years after her husband's death, she has reversed the usual lot of presidents' widows by gaining measurably in stature and prestige. She is a unique combination of Citizeness Fix-it and great lady. Today hers is the best-known among the many well-known names at the United Nations. She is the only U.S. delegate who has been named to every Assembly. She has been voted the most popular living American in a magazine poll, proposed...
Even in 1919, when Anna Gosko got her first look at him, Adolf Balaban was no matinee idol. He was an awkward, wistful little fellow with a flat face, jug ears, and old-country manners. He wasn't the smartest man in the world, either. He had been "over" from Poland for six years, had served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He had a laborer's job in a Brooklyn sugar refinery, but he could speak hardly a word of English...
...Anna, a big handsome Polish girl who had a habit of getting her own way, thought he was wonderful. Adolf soon proposed. They were married and lived happily in Brooklyn for eleven years. Then Adolf evolved a wonderful plan. He would go back to Poland, sell his family's farm, bring his aged parents to the U.S. and buy a farm himself. Anna agreed...
...world of the theater, there are six plays currently on the Boston stage. Some, like the Tributary Theater's production of Anna Christie at New England Mutual Hall, are revivals. Some, like Finian's Rainbow and Harvey, are returning to Boston after long runs on Broadway. And others, such as Michael Todd's new production As the Girls Go, Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky, or Josephine Hull and Eddie Dowling's Minnle and Mr. Williams, are on their first trial runs here before hitting the big time...