Word: finches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Mexico City to Houston one night last week, a square-jawed man wearing rimless glasses handed his seatmate two typed sheets of paper listing some 60 names. "I think I ought to know these folks," he explained. "Would you check me while I run over the list?" Henry Finch Holland, just nominated chief of the State Department's Latin American Affairs section, thereupon rattled off the names of Latin America's ambassadors to the U.S. and U.S. envoys to Latin America...
...earned a master's degree in electrical engineering. At Columbia he also met Ruth D. Masters, a student of international law, whom he married in 1931. Still, his advance in the Navy was slow, and when he got his first and only seagoing command, it was the minesweeper Finch, a decrepit rust bucket operating in China waters. Called back to Washington from Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines (where his hard-driving efficiency had made whole shiploads of enemies), he was assigned to the Electrical Section of the Bureau of Ships. By the time he got command...
...type of man who only gets off his horse when he is watching a horse show. Uncles Ernest and Nicholas are still getting aged and shaky; Grandma Adeline (who died some books ago) is lively as a cricket at the age of 98. Brothers Eden (22), Piers (19), Finch (15), Wakefield (8) are still in the process of growing into the well-known adults they have long since become : their habits of twisting each other's arms, catcalling and frolicking make grandma trumpet, "Ha! I like to see the whelps rioting!" New to Jalna is Dilly Warkworth, a charmer...
Most of the talent supporting Gaydos lags behind his example only slightly. Suzanne Chappel Finch, while in a role admitting of little experimentation, manages to keep herself from being overlooked among the welter of more colorful characters by the intensity with which she delivers he lines. Fortunately, these lines are few enough, and are of enough importance to stand the force she puts on them...
Lucy Barry as Patricia is best when she's being quietly ironic; Rosa Roscnbloom and Suzzanne Chappell Finch also add much to the mood of the play in their brief parts...