Word: aubrey
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...story taken from Oscar Wilde's "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" is the best by far. Its success is due to a good plot, some humor in the script, and the presence of pros like Edward G. Robinson, Thomas Mitchell, and C. Aubrey Smith. The brief scene in which the latter extolls the beauty of death while Robinson decides to murder him is a delightful mixture of the macabre and the amusing. But even Robinson, as a man compelled to realize the prophecy of a palmist who sees murder in his hand, gets tiresome in interminable chats with his inner...
Died. Charles Aubrey Eaton, 84, Republican Congressman from New Jersey for 14 terms (1925-52) and unwavering internationalist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Canadian-born (Pugwash, Nova Scotia) "Doc" Eaton entered Congress at 56 after a career as a Baptist minister (he steered his nephew, Cleveland Financier Cyrus Eaton, away from the ministry because "there is more than one way to serve God"), reporter, magazine editor (Leslie's Weekly) and industrial consultant. Although he kept up a running attack on New Deal-Fair Deal domestic policies, he plugged for bipartisanship in foreign affairs, helped found the United...
...Colonel Aubrey Dewitt Smith, chief of the Plans & Operations Division (Logistics Section) of the U.S. Army in Japan, was destined for bigger things. An up & coming West Pointer (class of '30), decorated at Okinawa (Silver Star) and a Korean war veteran, his life was all Army...
Arguing the affirmative will be Bartley Crum, a New York lawyer who was a member of the Anglo American Committee on Inquiry of Palestine and is the former owner of PM newspaper, and Rev. Karl Baehr, executive secretary of the American Christian Palestine Committee. They are replacing Israeli Ambassador Aubrey S. Eben who cancelled his engagement...
Around Irma and Sam-and an assortment of turn-of-the-century islanders-Novelist William March fashions a choice tropical romp in the serio-comic vein of Satirists Aubrey Menen and Edgar Mittelholzer...