Word: aubrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Yale's stars--Rex Aubrey, Kerry Donovan (looking for his third straight championship in the 50), Sandy Gideonse, and Dave Armstrong--and the one or two aces several members of the EISL sport, schools such as the University of North Carolina, Springfield, Lehigh, and Cortland State Teachers of N.Y. will be sending power to New Haven...
...hooked up to the ignition system. Her husband. Harry, 67, told police he suspected that his ex-son-in-law, Harry Washburn, a down-and-out Houston contractor, was involved in the murder. Washburn, said Weaver, had been threatening the family and trying to extort money. But District Attorney Aubrey Stokes had other ideas. He told newsmen he thought Architect Weaver himself was the guilty man, expected to arrest him for the killing...
...week's drama was partially redeemed by CBS's Best of Broadway, which revived George Kelly's 1924 Broadway hit, The Show-Off, as a starring vehicle for Comedian Jackie Gleason. As Aubrey Piper, a vainglorious blowhard who enchants his wife but drives her family daffy, Gleason was playing a role not too far removed from his own Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners. He posed and postured as man of affairs, thinker, dude and cocksure authority on everything from high finance to socialism. As his embattled mother-in-law, Hollywood's Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter...
...Ramayana, by Aubrey Menen. One of the best satirists between New York and Calcutta pokes good fun at a great Hindu epic and at the human race (TIME, Sept...
...centuries, young Hindus have been taught to revere its central characters. Dasa-ratha, the king, stands for fatherly devotion; Rama, his son and the hero of the tale, for strength of mind, arm and heart; Sita, his wife, for undying faithfulness. Under the guise of restoring the classic, Satirist Aubrey Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, Dead Man in the Silver Market) slyly milks a sacred cow for laughs. His freewheeling and irreverent Ramayana is a mock epic that owes less to its original author, the Hindu poet Valmiki, than it does to Voltaire's Candide and Boccaccio...