Word: cyril
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite another. What parent would have the nerve to call a kidnaper's bluff-to play, in effect, a game of poker with his own child's life? Ransom! is the story of a man who had the nerve. Based on a popular television play by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum, it is a fairly conventional thriller that says, in substance, something much better than conventional about the truth, and how dreadful is the operation by which it makes a man free...
...Millstones. The official paper spoke of the spies' undergraduate record of Communist sympathy. British Critic Cyril Connolly tried to explain the matter in Freudian terms (father trouble). Lord Beveridge, architect of the British Welfare State, suggested with supreme irrelevance that things might not have been so bad if the British civil-service pension system had been more liberal...
...watched last year's Peter Pan, but still far and away the largest audience for any TV event of the current season. This second look at Barrie's fable confirmed the remembered excellence of Jerome Robbins' production and the believable make-believe of Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard. It also enabled viewers to see that perfection does not stop with the stars: Sondra Lee was totally right as Tiger Lily, leader of the superbly choreographed Indians; Kathy Nolan's Wendy was witty as well as winsome, and even such spear carriers as the animals and Captain...
...named Repton (465 students) seems to be a stepping stone to the primacy of the Church of England. The last two Archbishops of Canterbury (William Temple and Geoffrey Francis Fisher) have been former headmasters of Repton. Last week Queen Elizabeth II named an old Reptonian to succeed the late Cyril Forster Garbett as Archbishop of York...
...Died. Cyril Forster Garbett, 80, outspoken Archbishop of York since 1942? and second-ranking prelate of the Church of England; two days before he was to be named a baron in the Queen's New Year's honors list (see PEOPLE) ; after long illness; in York, England...