Word: elspeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge of them--present a rich choice to the students. F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and critic Alfred Kazin are giving courses on American literature; Wassily Leontief, professor of Economics, and Walt W. Rostow of Oxford are lecturing on economics and economic politics; Miss Elspeth Davies of Sarah Lawrence, Neal A. McDonald of the New Jersey College for Women, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, are in charge of the government field; James Johnson Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, is lecturing on various phases of American art and architecture; anthropologist...
...addition to the Harvard roster, professors Walt W. Rostow of Oxford, an economist; Richard Schlatter, of Rutgers, and Elspeth Davies, of Sarah Lawrence, historians; and Margaret Mead, of Columbia, a cultural anthropologist, are on the Salzburg faculty...
Wrote bespectacled, courtly Ernest Betts (Daily Express), who can be as tough as molybdenum: "A great tragic performance. . . . She has an extraordinary range of expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said...
...best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy. By the time Janie's parents get home, along with the town police and a batch of MPs, there is precious little home to get to. Janie...
...AFRICAN POISON MURDERS -Elspeth Huxley*- Harper ($2). This one has everything, including literary quality. Herr Munson, a nauseous Nazi farmer on the veldt, is paid off in a native African poison. Inspector Vachell can't understand the mutilated ducks and dogs, and the reader gets the creeps...