Word: culver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Finger Exercise. Despite contrived moments and false notes, John Gielgud's eloquent direction and Peter Shaffer's sharp dialogue give atmosphere and tension to this play (with Roland Culver and Jessica Tandy) about an English family and the young German tutor who unwittingly feeds the fire of its discontent...
...more mousy English country-house play, with the sound of one more reminiscent and easily resolvable tune. But it becomes increasingly cat-and-mousy, with a tune that introduces subtle dissonances, ominous themes, crashing chords. The Harrington family is slightly non-U and wholly nonunified. Father (Roland Culver) is a self-made furniture manufacturer, all the more defensively crass and philistine because of his contemptuously snobbish, culture-climbing wife (Jessica Tandy) and his contemptuous, muddled mamma's lap dog of a son (Brian Bedford...
...clash was one of the most exciting in Harvard annals. With 17 minutes left in the game, the varsity had a comfortable 27-7 lead, thanks to brilliant play on the part of tailbacks Carroll Lowenstein and Dick Clasby, wing-back Bob Cowles, and fullback John Culver. But Brown roared back; with two minutes to play, the score was 27 to 20, and the Bruins had a first down on the Harvard six. The Crimson line, anchored by guard Bill Meigs, held on for the triumph...
...action confined to the game proper. After the gun sounded, one of the wildest brawls in modern memory broke out among the players. The Brown line, Meigs, Culver, and Crimson tackle Bernie O'Brien were the most prominent participants in the fray; Culver emerged with an opponent clutched in each hand...
...Bronx, where he was born on Oct. 9, 1903. He was the only son of Manhattan Politico Edwin J. O'Malley, a man who could trace his ancestry back to County Mayo, and Alma Feltner O'Malley, a woman whose family background was stolidly German. At Culver Military Academy young O'Malley had his first and last brush with baseball as a player. He caught a ball on his nose, and quit. At the University of Pennsylvania he shunned athletics to become the complete politician. "I believe he was the first man ever to become president...