Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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People often thought Charlie Merrill spent his wealth as fast as he made it. He cut a wide swath through international café society, loved good food and champagne. He owned three luxurious homes (in Palm Beach, Fla., Southampton, L.I., and Barbados), and embarked on an equal number of marriages...
...Janet Allen Walker, 70, onetime vaudeville singer who warbled Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, later (1912) married the song's Greenwich Village lyricist, James J. ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime (1925-32) musicomedy mayor of New York, divorced him in 1933, retired to Miami Beach and opened a religious bookshop, had monthly requiem Masses said for Jimmy after his death in 1946; of cancer; in Miami Beach...
While it suffers from being more didactic than the play, the movie most conspicuously lacks the understatement which the play's single set for instance, made possible. The camera ranges after Tom as he goes to the beach, the golf course, the school pajama party, and even to the rooms of Ellie, the local prostitute. The difference is that the movie's director, Vincente Minelli, seems intent to extract every bit of emotion, or--as the ads suggest--"sensitivity" from events that were only spoken of in the play. The apparent eagerness of both the writer and the director...
Died. Earl Godwin, 75, longtime (since 1908) Washington newsman and folksy NBC radio commentator (since 1935); in Rehoboth Beach...
...expected to go out for one team or another, Tom is regarded by his schoolmates as an "off-horse." He doesn't like football or baseball. He is quiet and gentle, reads poetry, listens to classical music. One day two schoolmates see him sitting on the beach with several faculty wives, sewing a but ton on a shirt (in the play he was accused of lying naked on the beach with a school master who was generally suspected of homosexuality). The story goes the rounds, and soon the other fellows are calling him "Sister...