Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flery-eyed Red admits he's a Harvard grad," the "Chicago Tribune" headlined its second article on alleged Communist activity at the University. The story, which appeared Monday, refers to Daniel Boone Schirmer '37, legislative agent for the Communist party...
...first leave in 1935, he wrote White Wings (based on the play by Philip Barry); he managed the musical score for Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster in a summer only because it was short and could be dashed off in a few months. On his second sabbatical, in 1942, he picked a libretto that "wouldn't work" and "missed the boat." He wrote a Quintet and some songs instead. Last week audiences in Columbia's Brander Matthews Hall saw and heard what good, grey Douglas Moore, 57, had cooked up on his third...
...latest, Each Man's Son, is set in his native Cape Breton Island, which lies off the Nova Scotia mainland like a rugged facsimile of Scotland. It is the story of Daniel Ainslie, the best doctor in town, who discovers in middle age that he is a desperately unhappy man despite work, respect and a good wife. What ails the doctor is simple enough: he wants children, and now it is too late. But since he and his wife have long ago stopped talking about their childlessness, the doctor doesn't recognize his own symptoms. When he steps...
...flag-decked railroad train chugged out of Piermont, N.Y. on May 14, 1851, old Daniel Webster settled down in a rocking chair in the middle of a flatcar, a jug of hard cider close at hand, "to enjoy the fine country." Along with U.S. President Millard Fillmore and 298 others, Webster was making the inaugural run over the New York & Erie's 446-mile track to Dunkirk, N.Y., on Lake Erie, thus linking the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. To Daniel Webster, the Erie was a "great work...
Enter the Villain. By such good reports in recent years, the Erie, once "synonymous with bankruptcy, litigation, fraud and failure," has lived down its reputation as the "Scarlet Woman of Wall Street." The man who seduced the Erie was an ex-cattle drover named Daniel Drew, a director from 1853 to 1868. "Uncle Dan'l" made millions juggling Erie stock* on Wall Street, but never gave the common stockholders a nickel, giving rise to the saying: "Icicles will sprout in hell before Erie common pays a dividend...