Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Liveliest experiment in the U.S. theater last season-and the greatest triumph-was the brilliant, bare-stage reading of Shaw's Don Juan in Hell (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951). Flushed by such success, Producer Paul Gregory has launched a prompt successor: Stephen Vincent Benét's 1929 Pulitzer Prizewinning narrative poem, John Brown's Body. With Charles Laughton again directing and with another name cast-Judith Anderson, Raymond Massey, Tyrone Power-the production opened in California in November, plans to get to Broadway in February. Meanwhile, it is playing one-night stands throughout...
...popular appeal, Benét's eloquent chronicle of the Civil War has more to offer than Shaw's dazzling moral debate. It tells an epic, yet hallowed and human story; it treats of divided lovers as well as a divided land. Though not the work of such a great master of stage dialogue as Shaw, the poem pretty well lends itself to stage use, has touching moments, fluid movement, big climaxes. It has also, on the whole, been well condensed...
...paper was tipped to its exclusive by a letter that News Reporter Ben White received from a friend who is a laboratory technician in Copenhagen. White tracked down the parents of George and/or Christine in New York City, talked them into giving him the full story, together with pictures of Christine in a low-cut dress and a letter from her breaking the news to the folks at home. Wrote she: "I am still the same old Brud, but my dears, nature made a mistake, which I have had corrected and now I am your daughter." Wire services and other...
...brass drove out from Pittsburgh last week to the company's most famous plant, Homestead. It is the plant that Andrew Carnegie once owned, and it was the keystone of the great 1901 merger on which U.S. Steel was built. Now, half a century later, Chairman-President Ben Fairless and his aides came to witness another milestone: the pouring of Big Steel's one billionth ton of metal. Never before in world history had one company made as much; it was twice as much as all the mills in Russia had ever made. It was enough to build...
...Steel flexed its muscles, it also shifted its high command. At 62, Chairman and President Ben Fairless was ready to turn over some of his duties to a younger man: Executive Vice President Clifford Hood, 58. Hood has had a big hand in planning and building Big Steel's huge expansion, including the $400 million Fairless works (TIME, Nov. 12, 1951), the biggest steel complex ever built at one time. On Jan. 1, he will take over Big Steel's presidency, though Fairless will still be the chief executive officer, bossing policy while Hood bosses operations...