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Many experts will wait till mid-November before unleashing their superlatives. By that time, they will be able to say with more certainty whether 1961 will be the year of Mae West-or Edna May Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: Mash Notes | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...treat me like dirt." Folding Tens. In his plays he could be fey and even sentimental, as in Yon Can't Take It With Yon, the saga of the lovably eccentric Vanderhofs, and he could turn out straight living-room drama, as in Dinner at Eight (with Edna Ferber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: One Man's Mede | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

Introduced by Edna Lawrence Spencer and signed "by request" by Rep. John R. Sennott, Jr., the bill would repeal the current proportional representation in Cambridge elections and substitute election by simple majority. Another provision of the bill calls for installing a city manager-council form of government in Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State House Committee Will Consider Repeal Of 'PR' Election Laws | 3/15/1961 | See Source »

...course, times have changed. For one thing, the writers nowadays all marry cuties. In our day, writers were sometimes drawn to more intellectual girls." And the girls (at least in retrospect) were brighter, such as the time, someone remembered, that Nonresident Member Noel Coward looked across the table at Edna Ferber and said sweetly, "You almost look like a man.'' Said Edna Ferber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Contracted Circle | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...EDNA AUBEL San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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