Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byrd, a bachelor played by Guinness, is told that he has a fatal disease and but a few weeks to live. Byrd has neither family nor friends to regret, only unfulfilled desires. He leaves all he has--his job--and resolves to spend a last holiday at an exclusive seaside hotel. There he is offered "influence, riches, love and kisses," none of which can be his. "The Last Holiday" has another and a last tragedy, an ending tense because of its substance and its sudden inevitability...
...Last Holiday" has a great deal to say, but not once does it speak with the offensiveness of a "message." Byrd is a nice guy, and, to quote Leo Durocher, "nice guys always finish last." A lot of charlatans surround this nice guy, a lot of charlatans...
Republicans had watched the President's entire maneuver with a wary and disappointed eye. In the sacking of inept Louis Johnson and the appointment of Marshall, a political issue was being snatched right from under their noses. When Virginia's Harry Byrd, a Democrat but no Administration man, rose to plead for the amendment ("I challenge any man who opposes this nomination to propose a better one"), Republicans leaped...
Italy: Freeman W. Adams; Howard C. Bennett, Jr.; Ruth C. Burke; Dale C. Byrd; Robert M. Durling; Joseph M. Goodman; Ernest R. Hacker (Second year grant); Hamilton A. Mathes; Alfred K. Moir; Freeland E. Romans (Second year grant); Clauds V. Pascila; Emanuel N. Turano; Raphael Zariski...
Italy: Freeman W. Adams; Howard C. Bennett, Jr.; Ruth C. Burke; Dale C. Byrd; Robert M. Durling; Joseph M. Goodman; Ernest R. Hacker (Second year grant); Hamilton A. Mathes; Alfred K. Moir; Freeland E. Romans (Second year grant); Clauds V. Pascila; Emanuel N. Turano; Raphael Zariski...