Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Herbert S. Morrison, 67, deputy leader of the British Labor Party and onetime Foreign Secretary; and Edith Meadowcroft, 47, retired credit-clothing-store manager; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1953), she for the first; in Rochdale, England...
...lions of British letters, grand-mannered poetess Dame Edith (Façade) Sitwell, 67, and her ailing author brother Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell, 62, ensconced in a Manhattan hotel for the Christmas holidays, reminisced about their past troubles with readers. Sir Osbert, who once listed his recreations as "listening to the sound of his own voice, not receiving letters and not answering them," recalled a frustrating incident on a train: "I saw a lady reading one of my books. Reaching across from my seat, I tapped the volume and told her, 'I am the author. Would...
Other new records: Bartok: Piano Concertos No. 2 & No. 3 (Edith Farnadi; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Hermann Scherchen; Westminster). Hungary's late composer Bartok was happily teaching in Switzerland in 1931 when he set down the slashing, almost barbaric strains of No. 2. He was still 18 bars from the end of No. 3, a comparatively serene but equally intricate work, when he died in 1945 in Manhattan. Both pieces here get superior readings and recordings...
...Oregon's Multnomah County, Mrs. Edith Green, 44, who was named Oregon's "outstanding girl" 28 years ago, lived up to her early promise. She defeated Republican Tom McCall, who had, in turn, won over G.O.P. Incumbent Homer Angell in the primary election. Mrs. Green, a trailer-court operator, got Portland's labor vote, despite the fact that McCall stressed his own union membership (in the television and radio artists' union...
...Edith Steinberg, in a not too difficult role, strikes the mean for this production and is most able, but without real distinction. And just a cut below Miss Steinberg, but in considerably less difficult or lengthy roles, are Mary Crocker and Sol Schwade. The rest of the cast is less able, below the generally high standard, and lacking the extenuation of playing tough parts. However, only Theodore von Kamecke, III, who is asked to play a man considerably older than his own age, with just some talcum in his hair for support, seems actually to drag...