Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baby in October, convalesced from a near miscarriage (said Hubby Mike Todd: "I know she's getting better; she's starting to scream at me"), Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, only a few weeks pregnant, was rushed 106 miles from Long Island to a Manhattan hospital. There, while Husband Arthur Miller waited, doctors performed an hour-long operation to end a tubal pregnancy (in which the tiny ovum grows in the Fallopian tube instead of in the uterus). Said Miller afterward: Marilyn felt "as well as could be expected," still planned to have children...
Nattily rigged in a Panama hat, General Douglas MacArthur led his wife and 19-year-old son Arthur (who will be a sophomore at Columbia) 30 blocks from their Manhattan apartment to a hotel ballroom rented by Sperry Rand, the firm he heads as board chairman. There, for an hour and a quarter, Five-Star Taxpayer MacArthur lectured stockholders on the evils of confiscatory taxes: "The present tax structure is probably adequate to socialize the United States. The budget is but the guesswork of a small group of individuals, temporarily gathered in Washington, whose previous training and experience has little...
Walter Kerr is a prolific writer not well enough recognized in the American theatre. A master craftsman, his Herculean fetus spawned in New England's Zeusian thigh is a lusty, virile creation. He manifests a through knowledge of dramatic styles from Aeschylus to Arthur Miller, and a comprehensive knowledge of the character and literature of each period of American development...
...parboiled, and impaled upon a pole on London Bridge for several months for all to see; the Inns of Court, in which were trained not only centuries of English jurists but also six signers of the Declaration of Independence-Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Thomas M'Kean and William Paca; and finally the sweeping green of Runnymede Meadow, 20 miles west of London, where the embattled barons prevailed upon King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215 ("To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny, or delay, right or justice...
...other principals include Marjorie Meeks and Eugene Gervasi as incidental dancers, with Karl Cook, Richard Bateson, Frederick Slater, Arthur Lewis, Claire Sarnie, Nancy Ryan, Carol Crowley, and Pamela Smythe filling out the minor singing roles...