Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Open Face & Big Frustration. Bloomgarden called in Director Da Costa and set to work casting the show. Barbara Cook (Plain and Fancy') had just the right sweet voice to play Marian; Comedian David Burns was a natural for the wacky mayor; an international championship barbershop quartet, the Buffalo Bills, was signed to harmonize the Sweet Adeline-style love songs that reminded Willson of Mason City days; a ten-year-old charmer named Eddie Hodges took on the role of Marian's shy little brother...
...Broadcasting Co., everybody on Madison Avenue knew that if he made good as vice president in charge of NBC's television network he would one day become president. Last week the day came. In a major topside shuffle, NBC President Robert Sarnoff, 40, son of NBC Founding Father David Sarnoff, moved up to board chairman, keeping the title of chief executive officer. Into the slot of president, with supervision over all but two of NBC's 30-odd vice presidents, moved Bob Kintner...
...four artists who will perform are David Fuller, Michael Senturia, Judith Davidoff, and Howard Brown...
CONSCIOUSNESS IN CONCORD (243 pp.) -Henry David Thoreau, with notes and a commentary by Perry Miller-Houghton Mifflin...
...Pierpont Morgan the elder made the purchase of a yellow pine box in 1909. Legend had it that the box was carpentered by Henry David Thoreau in his dying year (1862). Loosely fitted in this wooden frame were 38 manuscript notebooks in which the author of Walden had kept his monumental (nearly two million words) Journal, written in the course of 24 years. The box also offered a mystery. It concerned a missing notebook dating from Thoreau's 23rd year (1840), in which the strongest love interest of the Concord bachelor's life was supposedly blighted. Discovered some...