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...prosperous Bronx coal dealer, he completed one year at M.I.T., got jaundice, never went back to college. Instead, he studied ship design so thoroughly by himself that when he was only 19 Marine Architect Drake H. Sparkman asked him to form a partnership. Later, Architect W. Starling Burgess invited Stephens to collaborate on the J-Boat Ranger, the fastest yacht in history,* which defended the America...
...situation might suggest the kind of triple schizophrenia recently popularized in The Three Faces of Eve; or in Burgess Meredith's controversial production of Hamlet, in which three persons depicted three facets of Hamlet's personality and spoke now successively, now simultaneously...
...situation might suggest the kind of triple schizophrenia recently popularized in The Three Faces of Eve; or in Burgess Meredith's controversial production of Hamlet, in which three persons depicted three facets of Hamlet's personality and spoke now successively, now simultaneously. But Laurents has gone a step further here. Virginia lives in the present. The three girl tormentors, however, are not facets of her personality but rather three historical stages of her life. Laurents has put them all on the same temporal plane--the present--so that the three can converse and interact with themselves, with Virginia, and with...
...Charles Sparks Thomas, 60, bouncy, bottle-bald former Secretary of the Navy (1954-57), was named president of Trans World Airlines, a job that eccentric T.W.A. Owner Howard Hughes has found hard to fill since the death of Ralph S. Damon 2½ years ago. Carter L. Burgess piloted T.W.A. for a year until falling out with Hughes last December; since then, Chairman Warren Lee Pierson has acted as president, and T.W.A., with no firm, clear-cut leadership, lost $14 million in the first five months of 1958. To pull up T.W.A., Hughes picked an old airman. Californian Thomas climbed...
...four weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a lamasery. For, announced Burgess, his name is neither Rampa nor Kuan Suo but plain Cyril Henry Hoskin, and he is the son of a Devon plumber...