Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Lansing Hatfield, 44, onetime (1941-45) Metropolitan Opera bass-baritone (the king in Aïda), Broadway singer (Sadie Thompson); of cirrhosis of the liver; in Asheville...
...much of a writer, and his resentment against his father is still so intense that at times his book is painful. But his unique story shows the sad and bitter side of a man who, to millions, has only meant a racetrack kind of gaiety, a Broadway kind of sentimentality...
...advice of a doctor who told her to take a "long, long rest," Academy Award-winning Actress Audrey (Roman Holiday) Hepburn, 25, also the toast of Broadway for her star performance in Ondine, announced that she is going to loaf for "at least eight months" in Switzerland, Italy, France and England. Said overstrained Audrey: "I want to enjoy life, and not become a wreck after a few years of work, like so many others...
...Broadway v. Ivy League. Kestnbaum started with Hart Schaffner & Marx 33 years ago as a labor supervisor, directed the company's labor relations (considered a model for the industry) for the past 30 years. He served a term as a credit man, took over the retail end of the business when H.S. & M. began buying up shaky retail outlets in 1926 (first purchase: New York's Wallach's stores). In 1933 he worked with the late Mark Winfield Cresap, then president, in overhauling the company's management and policies, has been making most of the executive...
...vive de Galard-Terraube, 29, rejecting the label of "angel" despite her 56 days of selfless ministration to the sick and wounded in Dienbienphu, arrived to visit the U.S. at the invitation of the U.S. Congress.* In Manhattan, Nurse Geneviève was treated to a parade up lower Broadway. Next day she hopped down to Washington and was soon sitting in the front row of the House of Representatives' diplomatic gallery. Gleefully getting around an inflexible House rule that no gallery visitor may be introduced or even pointed out, Minnesota's Republican Representative Walter Judd reminded...