Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born Yesterday (by Garson Kanin; produced by Max Gordon) turns what could have been an angry sermon into an amusing evening. It deals with an ugly customer-a big-time racketeer. For roughneck, up-from-knavery Harry Brock, who has got his paws on most of the nation's junk yards, nothing talks but money, and nothing whatever talks back. But in slugging Harry, Playwright Kanin has saved his fists and relied on his funnybone. His menacing robber baron is also a slob and eventually a sucker...
...Providence art museum's Director Gordon Washburn had asked colleagues in 17 eastern museums to send their favorite contemporary U.S. paintings to an exhibition entitled "Museums' Choice." Last week the results were on view. Artists best liked by the museum directors: the late great Marsden Hartley, Maine modern whose rough-cut, bright-colored canvases were scorned by museums 20 years ago; Japanese-American Yasuo Kuniyoshi, whose slick, complex workmanship is especially admired by fellow artists...
Died. Maud Potter de Reuter Bennett, 80, Philadelphia-born arbitress of continental elegance; in Paris. She was hostess for and later wife of James Gordon Bennett Jr. in his Paris home, Versailles lodge, Beaulieu villa and on his yacht Lysistrata, journalistic aide to the absolute monarch of the New York Herald, whose feats and beats (most famed: Stanley's "discovery" of Livingstone) made journalistic history...
With the assistance of Gordon E. Peterson, research fellow in the Psycho Acoustic Lab. Davis made painstaking tests to find out more about the workings of the partially deafened ear, and to measure the loudest sound which both normal and defened subjects could tolerate with comfort. Using conscientious objectors as guinea pigs, he was able to design the "theoretically perfect hearing...
...President's fact-finding panel went a company statement carefully drawn up by Lawyer Walter Gordon Merritt, long a thorn in labor's side.* His argument: 1) no fact-finding board could do more than guess at a company's ability to pay wages in the future; 2) ability to pay was not a proper standard anyway, since it could only result in forcing some industries or companies to accept "a super-wage" higher than its competitors were paying...