Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department of Justice announced that Canadian-born Mrs. Anita Boyer Field, 36, wife of party-lining Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field, headed off into Mexico early this month. Her voluntary move was made, with Justice's blessing, so that she might avoid deportation on charges that she illegally entered the U.S. from Canada. With her went Michel, 12, and Elise, 9, her children by Dr. Raymond Boyer, former McGill University chemistry professor who did a two-year stretch for passing Canadian secrets to Soviet spies during World...
...when a boy rejects his father as an ideal. If the father is a dominating, bullying type, the boy is likely to prefer, and tend to identify himself with, his mother's yielding tenderness. If father is a henpecked weakling, the boy will reject him and resolve to avoid his mistake of falling into the clutches of a dominating or shrewish woman. The possible variations are innumerable...
Nelson keeps his actors fresh by rehearsing them less than any other dramade show on the air-only six hours a week before going on camera. He tries to avoid directorial "writer's cramp" in himself by taking on outside chores with other shows and other networks, e.g., directing such westerns as ABC's Outlaw's Reckoning or such thrillers as Brandenburg Gate, as a refreshing change of pace...
Keating proposed that, to avoid such excesses, procedure in investigating committees should be standardized. "Procedure is equally important with substance," he said. He cited as examples the rules set up by his subcommittee on the investigation of the Department of Justice...
...last play written by the late Sidney Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, The Silver Cord). It was groomed for Broadway in 1939 but closed out of town. Last week it became the first play offered by the Phoenix Theater, a professional, well-heeled repertory group that, to avoid Broadway costs, will produce on lower Second Avenue. The stars this time are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn...