Word: eds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems most likely that coach Norm Shepard will start fast-balling righthander Ed Wadsworth in today's contest. Wadsworth's performance so far this spring has been a very pleasant surprise, and he has now established himself as Shepard's most reliable pitcher...
Dave Bohn, Nick Lamont, and Jerry Pyle will start the game at attack, while Tim Morgan, Dick Parks and Lanny Keyes will start at midfield. The first defensive unit includes Ed Tarlov, Bron Thayer, and Keyes, with Chris Stone in the nets...
...newcomer, lacks the necessary depth for the title role. Despite her poetic prettiness and exaggerated emaciation, she looks like an Ivory Soap ad instead of a tortured adolescent. The other actors do considerbly better; Shelley Winters, as Mrs. Van Daam, dispenses with glamour in favor of convincing frumpishness, while Ed Wynn, as Mr. Dussel, adds a fine touch of ridiculous humanity...
With the exception of Julius Novick's article in extended praise of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, and Paul Riesman's essay on "mentally fat professors," the quality of the writing in the first issue of Gadfly is surpassed only by a mediocre Gen. Ed. essay. Also included in this issue is a short piece in French, which, after reading, I leave for the more esoteric to interpret, and an enigmatic scrawl on art and Ezra Pound written for a very special "in-group" to discuss over their Turkish tea at the Cafe Mozart...
...Superlative. In both spectaculars, which went on the air within four days of each other, Susskind was backing a sure thing. Meet Me matched the light-fingered direction of George (Green Pastures) Schaefer with a cameraful of Hollywood glamour: Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain, Tab Hunter, Jane Powell, Ed Wynn. The Browning Version was also star-packed: Sir John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Robert Stephens. With so much to offer, neither show could fail. And in the case of The Browning Version, Gielgud's superlative performance could have done the job alone. Sir John's every...