Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potent executive committee, he has only one vote on it. Fluent and articulate, he must sometimes use all of his persuasiveness to win a majority to his side. Like the Supreme Court, the committee sometimes splits 5 to 4, and heated arguments develop. When they do, says one committeeman, "Crawford usually grabs the ball and starts talking. He's an excellent filibusterer." When tempers subside, Greenewalt steers the talk to some new problem, brings up the contested one later...
...show a town meeting or a circus? Some observers thought they were seeing an awakened and outraged citizenry. But in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Columnist Ollie Crawford argued: "The Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions...
...tour of this play, is chartered by the Congress of the United States under Public Law 199. Its purpose is the "sponsorship and implementation of various types of theatre activity" in this country. Congress gave ANTA everything but an appropriation. The officers of ANTA, including Helen Hayes, Cheryl Crawford, and Vinton Freedley '14, have managed by means of private fund-raising, to make the group more than a name. A series of fine revivals on Broadway this year, including "Twentieth Century," has given ANTA needed publicity. Jouvet's tour, which has reached four American and Canadian cities, broadens ANTA...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Joan Crawford in The Damned...
...Crawford's wife had sued for separate maintenance, charging cruelty...