Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening last week, The Company of Four, a London longhair repertory group, presented Jean Cocteau's Azrael (English title: The Eagle Has Two Heads),* Next morning Londoners learned that whatever might be said about the play (and little was said in its favor), a young woman named Eileen Herlie, of whom few had ever heard before, was a Great Actress...
Pert, talented Author Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney was born with revolt in her veins. Said she: "My mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
...fall of 1941, a shrewd Irishwoman named Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett surrounded herself with eager young literary men and started a magazine in Manhattan. She gave showy cocktail parties in her penthouse to introduce herself to the trade. The trade learned that Mrs. Garrett was a "celebrated international medium," who claimed powers of clairvoyance, telepathy and prevision.* The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision. Last week Eileen Garrett's Tomorrow had its third editor in 60 days...
...Tomorrow's five years, that unexceptionable policy had not been able to make ends meet. The 35? monthly (circ. 25,000) had gone into the red on every issue, was still eating up about $15,000 a month. What kept it going, besides Eileen Garrett's own money and implacable will, was a silent partner, Representative Frances Bolton (R.) of Ohio...
Some of Tomorrow's numerous alumni complain that an editor must be psychic himself to work for a psychic boss. Serenely stroking her nine gold bracelets, thrice-married Eileen Garrett says sweetly: "I've never had anything but a neurotic editor until this very moment. You know," she adds with a glitter, "the number of phonies you meet in this town...