Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comedian] David Garroway ... is due for a TIME promotion, by virtue of seniority and Navy personnel. Garroway patrolled the untroubled waters of Waikiki as a lieutenant, junior grade, not as an ensign [TIME, July...
...eight chests contained 1,300 unpublished pages of the Life of Samuel Johnson, Boswell's diary, the complete manuscript of the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Boswell's correspondence with Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmund Burke, David Garrick and Voltaire. Isham had always wanted a place like his alma mater to have them. Last week, Yale bought them all with funds supplied by the McGraw-Hill Co." (which will have exclusive publishing rights) and the Old Dominion Foundation (founded by Paul Mellon, Yale...
...Long Island, Argonne at Chicago, and Oak Ridge, Tenn.) are becoming major centers of scientific life. Smaller AEC laboratories are sprouting up all over the country. At present the program employs about 6,500 scientists and technicians. On the vital problem of personnel, the report, signed by Chairman David E. Lilienthal and his four fellow commissioners, commented significantly: "The morale situation has recovered from a very low point...
...Florence Bates-and the first-night audience looked like a Hollywood première. But behind the elaborate façade was the solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help get it started in 1947. Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire and Joseph Gotten, as directors of the Playhouse, have also pitched...
...Total damage to church property since 1948 has been estimated at between $900,000 and $2,000,000, and Christian officials are pressing for full reparations. The Israeli government has promised special consideration when its Parliament considers a bill for the settlement of all war damages. Said Premier David Ben-Gurion: Israel will pay for church damage "where we are found to be responsible. I couldn't imagine any possible conflict between us and the Catholic Church...