Word: assists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...degree. Douglas Watson is an affecting Ralph, gentle without being wispy as Isabel's consumptive adorer. Though given no chance to hint at the charm and initial love which wins Isabel's hand, Robert Flemyng's Osmund is to perfection the egoistic tyrant the script prescribes. With Archibald's assist, however, one performance makes all the others seem drab. Cathleen Nesbitt draws from the role of Osmund's vulgar sister a vibrant bitterness which bursts from the genteel monotony of the play. Her acid interpretation, less dilute with silliness than James' conception, gives the lines a brilliance which illuminates...
...laying hens at the Harrisburg state egg-laying contest in 1953 and 1954 came from the lush, 500-acre Leader Farms, and Leader Angus cattle have been Grand Champions in the last four Reading fairs. Like most Yorkmen, Guy Leader learned his trade early. "It became my job to assist my mother with her flock of chickens,'' he recalls, "caring for setting hens, making coops from store boxes for the cluck and her little brood when the chicks were hatched, seeing that they were fed and watered and that their heads were greased to kill the head lice...
...Chamber of Commerce: "We should go slow in preaching the value of free enterprise and of competition abroad while we erect unreasonably barriers to competition with our own markets. We should not insist that friendly nations shut off trade with Iron Curtain countries unless we are will ing to assist them in finding alternate markets...
Left wing Holmes got two assists and one goal. His first assist came in the first period on a pass to Grey Hodnett, center forward, who scored at 8:55 on a low, hard shot...
...editions and has become the world's No. 1 fashion magazine. The credit goes largely to Edna Woolman Chase, who at 77 has spent 59 years on the magazine, most of them as Vogue's editorial boss and arbiter of good taste. Last week, with an assist from her actress-author daughter Ilka Chase (Past Imperfect), Editor Chase published her autobiography, Always in Vogue (Doubleday; 381 pp.). In it she spins a rich, half-century history of the world of high fashion that revolved around her magazine, in which one must "be always at the summit of everything...