Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nominated Princeton's Professor Henry DeWolf Smyth, author of the famed Smyth Report on atomic energy, and the University of Southern California's Professor Gordon Evans Dean, onetime law partner of Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon, to fill the existing vacancies on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
Romance with Head Cold. When The Blue Bird was produced in Paris, the author's eyes lingered on a lively girl who played the part of "Cold-in-the-Head." He took her home to the ancient Benedictine abbey near Rouen which he had bought as his residence. Eight years later, when Cold-in-the-Head was 27, the 57-year-old poet forsook Georgette and married her. They reconverted a huge gambling casino on a hillside overlooking Nice. There they settled down...
Brooklyn-born Comic Danny Kaye, currently wowing the British at the London Palladium, took time off for tea in Ayot St. Lawrence with Bernard Shaw. "It was a very happy and spontaneously merry occasion," reported Shaw's author-neighbor Stephen Winston (Days with Bernard Shaw). "They put on a joint act . . . there was no conversation . . . quite spontaneous and carried out in mime. Danny sat on the lawn looking whimsical and picking daisies. And G.B.S. strode up to him and slapped him merrily on the back . . ." Said Showman Kaye to Showman Shaw: "I can quite see, G.B.S., why you have...
When, at the age of 45, he fell in love with 18-year-old Ellen Ternan (who didn't love him, says Author Pearson, but "placed comfort before chastity"), he had little compunction about booting his wife out of the house, retaining custody of most of the children and giving a thoroughly dishonest version of his behavior to the newspapers. He aroused millions to compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions...
...Shaplen's central characters. Archer Grayson watches an outbreak of Hindu-Moslem rioting and knows, "with a terrified shame, that he had been waiting for this to happen." When Archer gets in the way of a murderous mob, his death is a kind of anguished moral suicide. Author Shaplen as much as tells the readers: hate and violence anywhere are the concern of all decent men; they can be observed with indifference only at the cost of moral health...