Word: besse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bess Truman, 71, resting comfortably in an Independence, Mo. hospital after breaking her left ankle in a stairway fall at home; cinema Tough Guy Humphrey Bogart, 58, slowly mending from throat cancer surgery last March despite weight loss (he now scales 120 lbs. v. his normal 150); Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, 47, out of Bethesda Naval Hospital in time to attend the opening of Congress, recovered from further surgery on the site of an operation he underwent last summer for removal of a tumor in his right...
George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess was intended to be an American folk opera, with jazz as the lifeblood of its score. But, as a musical show, it had to be all written down, could not take chances with improvisation, and thus lacked the prime ingredient of jazz. Now Bethlehem Records has taken a daring step: with an impressive concentration of forces-including Duke Ellington's band, the Australian Jazz Quintet, a vocal group and ten leading singers-it has recorded the famed work in a real jazz spirit. Each selection is accompanied by a different combo, e.g., Duke...
...class and manner into a go-minute teleplay that had consistency, pace and believability. Good direction (by Vincent Done-hue) carried the story past Gilroy's occasional rough spots and got good performances out of a good cast. Sarah Churchill was a handsome, if not sufficiently Scott Fitzgeraldean, Bess Harcourt of the mill-owning Harcourts. Particularly when it came time to let the hypocrisy in his soul take over from the loyalty in his manner, Peter Lawford effectively carried Willis Wayde to his ultimate decision: if he could not have Bess, he would have her family mill...
When the touring all-Negro Porgy and Bess company went behind the Iron Curtain last year (TIME, Jan. 9), footloose Author Capote (novels, stories, plays, movies) decided to try his hand at something new, tagged along with the troupe. The reasons why the Soviet Ministry of Culture gave permission for the Porgy tour are obscure, but Capote's own shrewd guess is that the opera's message about people being happy though they have "plenty of nothin'" conforms to the Kremlin notion of the American Negroes as "poverty-pinched and segregated in the ghetto of Catfish...
Thank God for Truman. By the singular clarity of his political devotion, he should make us Republicans realize the perils of mealy mouthed complacency and muddleheaded vacillation. If it weren't for Bess, we would have had a fight on our hands this fall...