Word: deftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cotton Bowl. His gag had a sharp point. Jones was in the Cotton Bowl, but his team was hardly in the ball game. Cool, cocky Navy did not take Rice seriously, and did not need to. Middie Quarterback Tom Forrestal, playing his last game, put on a deft lesson in the tactics of offensive warfare. Sharp-eyed while the Rice line shifted defensively, Forrestal changed many of his plays as he crouched over his center, completed 13 out of 24 passes for 153 yards. Against such opposition. Rice's big (6 ft. 3 in., 205 Ibs.) Quarterback King Hill...
...stressed at the expense of depth, and there is no time to develop any very complex characters. The most interesting of the lot is the fanatic British colonel, all of whose actions stem from one trait: conscientiousness carried to the point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow commandoes, Sessue Hayakawa is the blustering Japanese...
...faced whoduniteer (The Nine Tailors), translator (Chanson de Roland), playwright (The Devil to Pay), rapier-witted Anglican writer on theology (Creed or Chaos?); of a coronary thrombosis; in Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...
Died. E. G. (Ernest George) Harcourt Williams, 77, deft, wizened character actor of the British stage (more than 200 plays), screen (Hamlet, Roman Holiday), radio and TV, who joined the Old Vic in 1929, produced (in four years) some 50 plays, revitalized Shakespearean production, introduced works of his old chum, Playwright George Bernard Shaw; after long illness; in London...
...long, late session a month ago with the city's board of estimates. Scrambling for new revenue, they had just about settled on a sewer tax when someone brought in a copy of the next day's Baltimore Sun. On the back page was a deft cartoon by Staffer Richard Q. Yardley showing the taxpayer apprehensively brushing his teeth while Tax Collector Tommy hovered outside his bathroom. D'Alesandro got the picture. "They'll say Tommy's charging them five cents every time they flush the John!" he bellowed in dismay...