Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James E. Cunningham, 34, a Cleveland-born electronics engineer for Texas Instruments, Inc., who attracts attention as an especially conscientious juror by the way he sits bolt upright in the jury...
...completely into the philosophical ramblings that he enjoyed so much. Not that Shaw curbed his didacticism in this play; he created a long episode of Don Juan in Hell specifically as a setting for what he called a "Shavio-Socratic dialogue." But Shaw could preach without becoming soporific. John Cunningham's commanding performance as Don Juan helps prevent the scene in Hell from going entirely limp. And Frank Lucas's portrayal of a civilized, romantic Lucifer is as delightfully incongruous as his depiction of Mendoza, the brigand chief...
...iconoclast, wealthy socialist John Tanner, is a modern counterpart of his ancestor, Don Juan. Tanner violates conventions, rather than damsels. Cunningham plays Tanner well, albeit very seriously. His performance falters only at the end, when he tells the predatory Ann in an intentionally farcical manner that he lover her. Earlier in the act, the confrontation between an American billionaire, Hector Malone, and his rebellious son is also performed with broad, almost burlesque humor. But the Malones' argument forms a self-contained episode and does not jar the audience...
Died. Andrew Browne Cunningham, 80, Viscount of Hyndhope, a crusty, klaxon-voiced sea dog who as Britain's Mediterranean commander in chief in World War II sank the pride of the Italian navy at Taranto and Cape Matapan, blocking Rommel's supply route and turning Mussolini's vaunted Mare Nostrum into "Cunningham's Pond"; of a heart attack; in London...
Married. Briggs Cunningham, 56, millionaire sports-car builder-driver and yachtsman who skippered Columbia to victory in the 1958 America's Cup; and Laura Maxine Elmer, 39, also a sports-car enthusiast; both for the second time; in El Paso, Texas, the day after Cunningham divorced his wife of 33 years (three children) in Juarez, Mexico...