Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Playwright-Author Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Roosevelt and Hopkins) drew the top price-$600-at a charity auction sale of amateur art. His oil painting, Lion Couchant and Worried, was bought by his wife. Path of Investigation, an item whipped up for the occasion by White House Aide Harry H. Vaughan, went...
Connecticut Author Mortimer Smith (The Life of Ole Bull) had four children of school age, but like most parents, he had never bothered to find out much about the public schools they were going to. Three years ago, he became a member of the regional high-school board for the towns of Newtown, Woodbury, Southbury and Bethlehem, and "Oh my," says he, "how my eyes were opened...
Madness is the subject of this play, and it receives an excellent treatment in the hands of the Brattle Company and its guest star Ian Keith, who gives one of the greatest performances I have ever seen. "Henry IV" was one of the plays which won its author, Pirandello, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. It is a provocative and ingenious investigation of sanity and reality, which uses the play-within-a-play idea. But with a difference...
...book sets forth the author's theories on a possible area of agreement between moderate liberal and moderate conservative opinions. Schlesinger will defend his work in person...
This is no definitive work; the author makes no pretenses to such an object. But it is an interesting job in the man who one day this week will decide whether half a million coal miners have presents for their kids on Christmas. A man with that kind of power deserves a vivid biography, which is just what Mr. Alinsky has given...