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Inspired by a friend who had stopped drinking, Wilson went to meetings of the Oxford Group, an evangelical society founded in Britain by Pennsylvania Frank Buchman. And as Wilson underwent a barbiturate-and-belladonna cure called "purge and puke," which was state-of-the-art alcoholism treatment at the time, his brain spun with phrases from Oxford Group meetings, Carl Jung and William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, which he read in the hospital. Five sober months later, Wilson went to Akron, Ohio, on business. The deal fell through, and he wanted a drink. He stood in the lobby...
...Jeremy Buchman, a seventh year doctoral studentin American political science at Stanford, sayshis department is attractive because "you'reguaranteed a certain amount of funding," and as aresult, it is less competitive and more"collegial...
...Court of St. James's, said releasing it abroad would do "inestimable harm to American prestige." Senate majority leader Alben Barkley called it a disgraceful attack on the U.S. Senate. Imagine the furor if any of them had known that a man still active in the Communist Party, Sidney Buchman, had written the screenplay for Mr. Smith...
...under MOLLY bishop's direction the text is as the stage is poorly lit. Shakespeare's fanciful tale of The Temest Directed by Molly Bishop At the Loeb Mainstage Through November 17 a shipwreck on a magical islands undergoes needless and destructive editing that butches the plot. And Matthew Buchman's set is as monochromatic as the performance itself, leaving the considerable the play's theatrical potential untapped...
Died. Sidney Buchman, 73, film producer and scenarist; following a heart attack; in Cannes, France. A top Hollywood screenwriter (The Sign of the Cross, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and a Columbia Pictures producer, Buchman was blacklisted after admitting to a congressional committee in 1951 that he had once been a Communist. He returned to film work in the 1960s serving as one of the writers on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton epic, Cleopatra, and later produced and wrote the film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller, The Group...