Word: dares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. William H. Danforth, 85, founder (1893) and board chairman of Ralston Purina Co., philanthropist ($100,000 in 1954 to further the spiritual growth of Vassar students), author (Dare You); of a heart attack as he awaited the arrival of carol singers from the National Christmas Carols Association, which he founded in 1911; in St. Louis...
...this point in The Night My Number Came Up, a singularly unnerving picture based on a peculiar incident that actually happened in the Far East, the moviegoer suddenly feels like a man who has reached for his walking stick and grasped instead the tail of a tiger. He dare not let go, but oh, how he hates to hang...
...have always taken the precaution of "dosing" the vote so that Premiers were brought down judiciously short of constitutional majorities. But last week overconfidence made the Mendesists careless. "The more he is humbled, the better," they crowed. To scattered cries of "dissolution," they answered airily: "He wouldn't dare go that...
...should not dare say. Charles W. Eliot would be the dominant figure, the greatest man in American education...
Giant Abstraction. Julie would be the last to agree with the Barrymore boast -but the dare was exciting. Last week on Broadway she took it. She opened as Joan of Arc in Lillian Hellman's adaptation of The Lark from the French of Jean Anouilh. Her previous roles, no matter how complex, had kept within the limits of "colloquial drama." She had played people of life size in a theater of the norm, and she had only to cut herself to make her characters bleed. Joan, however, was not merely a human being, into whose feelings an actress...