Word: basile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the neat signature of Lawyer Basil O'Connor, 66, its first and perennial president (since 1938), the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis sent out word last week that it will soon make "the first announcement of our plans" for a new program-now that victory over paralytic poliomyelitis has been substantially achieved. The plans, said O'Connor, "have been many years in the making." He might have added that ever since the Salk vaccine, developed with N.F.I.P. funds, was recognized as a weapon capable of preventing the worst ravages of polio, the roar of speculation about what...
Although the play is often presented, rarely is a production seen with the obvious craftsmanship and creativity of the present one. Director Basil Langton has fully realized the author's attempt to give flesh to a social abstraction and on the other hand to give eloquence and stature to flesh that is at times all too solid. The author seems to ask, when and how can the sons of the men who carved a country out of the frontier with the strength of their hands adjust to the business suit and all the other impersonal appurtenances of a white collar...
...credit-and the Post suddenly became one of Dever's loudest backers. Similarly, Fox had pledged the Post to support Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and abruptly switched position. His story now is that after discussions with others, including Neanderthal Republican Publisher Basil Brewer of New Bedford, Mass., he decided that Cabot Lodge was "soft on Communism" and that therefore he decided to move over and back Democratic Candidate John Kennedy. The day the Post's Kennedy-for-Senator editorial appeared, by Fox's account, Fox talked to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, multimillionaire father...
Closer to the Square, however, is the Boston Summer Theatre, at New England Mutual Hall. Opening July 7 with Bert Lahr in Visit to a Small Planet, the Summer Theatre will also present James Mason in Mid-Summer (July 14-19); Basil Rathbone and Geraldine Page in Separate Tables (July 21-26); Tonight at 8:30, with Faye Emerson (July 28-Aug. 2); Hal March in A Hole in the Head (Aug. 4-9); Dulcy, with Dody Goodman (Aug. 11-16); and Melvyn Douglas in Strange Partners, a new play by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke...
...Gordon will represent the Crimson in a special 500-yard race, in which the entries are restricted to present college undergraduates. Gordon will get stiffer competition from Yale's Bob Skerritt, Basil Ince of Tufts (a scorer in last spring's N.C.A.A. championship), and Rudy Smith of Bates...