Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janet Dunbar. George Bernard Shaw's love life was strictly postman's knock as one torrid affair after another has been found to be only on paper. But for 45 years he was a testy but loyal husband, she a malleable wife in an oddly successful marriage...
Last week the jury went off to ponder the evidence against Lopez and Newrocky. Hours later the foreman announced that the jury was unable to reach a verdict. Then, at last, common sense asserted itself. Judge Bernard Schmidt, appalled by the overinflated proceedings, mercifully dismissed the case outright "in the interests of justice...
...literary London. She was rich and a lady, and loathed the limelight. He was a Socialist and no gentleman, and feasted on celebrity. It seemed on all counts an improbable match; yet by Shavian standards it had a certain compelling illogic. As it turned out, the marriage of George Bernard Shaw and Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend lasted 45 years and was, by any measure, a fairly successful...
Last weekend's Experimental Theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Village Wooing was a warm and delightful artistic experience which captured the spirit of Shaw's comic genius...
Died. General Bernard Cyril ("Tiny") Freyberg, 74, New Zealand's hero of two world wars, proud possessor of nine battle wounds and many more decorations (including the Victoria Cross), a bluff, towering New Zealander who swam the Gulf of Saros o Gallipoli in 1915, dragging a raft of lares in a diversionary tactic against the Turks, in World War II led Imperial troops in Libya, bloody Crete and Italy, where he once squelched a U.S. genral's complaint that New Zealanders never saluted with the crack, "Try waving at them and they'll wave back," returned home...