Word: danae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dana C. Hyde...
...Edward Dana...
...paper where tradition counts-but its tradition has not always been archconservative, nor have frontpage manifestos always been rare in it. In the great Charles A. Dana's day it frequently supported Democrats, and in Groceryman Frank Munsey's time (1916-25), violent eruptions which staffers called "Munsey proclamations" appeared with regularity on the face of the Sun. Great ghosts still haunt its dim corridors. Courtly Keats Speed, a great-nephew of Poet John Keats, still puts out his cigaret when he enters the newsroom, in habitual deference to a rule of the Munsey era, long since repealed...
After weeks of controversy and worry, the fate of the Dana-Palmer House was settled this week with the announcement that that it will be moved across Quincy Street into the area between the Union and Faculty Club and set up as a University guest-house...
...Dana Andrews had the inherent intensity and toughness to be convincing as the hardboiled detective hero; Tom Neal, a good performer, has neither. In the movie, Clifton Webb was Waldo Lydecker--the actor could not be distinguished from the character. Otto Kruger turns in an excellent performance, but he, nevertheless, is Otto Kruger playing Waldo Lydecker: the difference is subtle but all important. Paradoxically, Miriam Hopkins, twice the actress Gene Tierney is, lacks the latter's cold, elusive quality, just right for the mysterious Laura...