Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fond dream of Playwright George Bernard Shaw, popular adoption of a king-size phonetic alphabet, is finally to get some development and promotion. Though G.B.S. left a tidy sum to his proposed ''alphabet trust," institutional beneficiaries under his will fought against relinquishing a farthing to further Shaw's idea (TIME, March 4); even his old friend Lady Astor dismissed it as "ridiculous." Last week's compromise in court: the public trustee of Shaw's estate announced that a maximum of $23,240 will be set aside for the project. A first prize...
...melancholy." Shipped to Rome's Restoration Institute, the painting has been carefully worked over for the past seven months. The Madonna which emerged, with amaranth-red robe, gilt-edged blue veil and glittering gold medallion is judged by critics the finest Martini oil painting known. Nonagenarian Renaissance Critic Bernard Berenson, who once called Martini "the most lovable of all the Italian artists before the Renaissance," said of the discovery: "It is certainly a masterpiece. And there is not the slightest doubt that it is an authentic Simone Martini...
...finally found her stimulus in Theosophy. In the cult's early exciting days its devotees expected that a great spirit was about to be reincarnated. Mrs. Annie Besant-Socialist, organizer of the Theosophical Society, and pal of Bernard Shaw -undertook to conjure up the great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...
...second day, thousands of workers and shoppers stayed away. Retailers moaned over million-dollar-a-day losses in sales. Newspapers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in pages of retail advertising. Macy's talked to Gimbels. Macy's President Jack Straus and Gimbels' President Bernard Gimbel conferred with Mayor Robert Wagner, posed for pictures as they rode the sometimes operative subway back to their monster department stores to prove that it could be done...
...Ernest George) Harcourt Williams, 77, deft, wizened character actor of the British stage (more than 200 plays), screen (Hamlet, Roman Holiday), radio and TV, who joined the Old Vic in 1929, produced (in four years) some 50 plays, revitalized Shakespearean production, introduced works of his old chum, Playwright George Bernard Shaw; after long illness; in London...