Word: friend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, De Groot's friend, composer Juriaan Andriessen, announced that he was going to compose a piece for the left hand. As the news spread, other composers volunteered to do the same. Virtually every top Dutch composer is working on a piece for De Groot to be finished before February, in time for a new radio series. The new works will nearly triple the left-hand repertory...
...with bootleggers (Ruark says he had "a connection with Texas Guinan's brother, who had a connection in New Jersey"). After that, the author departs from his own life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best friend in a deal with a racketeering unionist, and beggars countless widows and orphans in a stock fraud-all without altering his own good opinion of himself. The odd thing is that Author Ruark seems to share that good opinion. "Cash" Price, the coldhearted moneyman, has most of the personal characteristics...
Sponsored by the Harvard golf team in honor of a friend and supporter of Crimson golf, the tournament, which is open to both graduates and undergraduates, will take place Thursday and Friday at the Sandy Burr Country Club in Wayland...
...psychological quarry was the split personality, his technical gimmick the use of masks. Turning a masked face to the world, Dion Anthony (Fritz Weaver) seems Panlike, violent, blasphemous, sexually magnetic. Without his mask, Anthony quivers and quakes, is reverent toward God and repellent to women. Dion's school friend Billy Brown (Robert Lansing) grows up decent and successful but frustrated. He envies Dion's personality, craves Dion's wife, and, at Dion's death, snatches the mask that made Dion unstable and violent...
...baby, runs home to mother and gets a divorce. Grimly true to his art, the hero hangs on. And so it goes for an hour and three-quarters, through every possible vicissitude of a Broadway career-from Sorry, You're Not the Type to the Faithless Friend to the Marriage of Ambition to the McCarthy Blacklist to the Job as a Waiter at Sardi's. In the end, naturally, there is the Big Break, the Smash Hit and the Name Up There in Lights...