Word: edwardic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your report of Edward Bernays' analysis of what ails our theater [TIME, Oct. 10], no mention is made of poor voices and incomprehensible enunciation. Many of the performers can act fairly well, but only a few of them speak intelligibly . . . There is such a thing yet (or is there?) as your money's worth; and moving figures mumbling quietly to themselves are not worth the price asked...
...Archie") Gardner of radio fame, and his move to Puerto Rico because "it's a hell of a good business opportunity" [TIME, Oct. 10]. Respectfully suggest that he and others of his type be permitted to do this and make it permanent . . . EDWARD L. WOLFF Montpelier...
Curley had met Roosevelt at a luncheon at the home of Colonel Edward M. House ("the president-maker") in Magnolia, Mass. After the luncheon, when the group faced the press, Curley told the newsmen point-blank that it was going to nominate Roosevelt for President, But, so strong was Massachusetts feeling for Smith, that Curley was not even elected to the delegation to the convention. Instead, he went to Chicago alone and there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard...
...chairmen, Edward F. Burke '50, Student Council President, and Robert F. Fuller '50, N.S.A. Chairman; Secretary, Francis L. Church '50, President of the Free Enterprise Society; Treasurer, Charles J. West '50, President of the Harvard Democratic Club...
Casting for the production was completed last night. The four sinners include Connaught O'Connell '52 as Estelle; Carla Freidman '52 as Inez; Edward W. Franklin 3L as Garcon; and Jerry Kohn '52 as the valet. All action takes place in "a new kind of hell," an ornately decorated room where the characters must spend eternity in each others' presence...