Word: gown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper photographers one night last week in a cramped backstage office of Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter. "Let's have a leg shot, Betty," shouted a cameraman, and gamely she snaked out one of the most celebrated gams this side of Marlene Dietrich. "Spread open your dressing gown," snapped one photographer. "You look like you only...
Forty-two Yale students arrested in the March snowball riots were granted a reprieve Saturday by the City of New Haven, which postponed hearings until June 1. The move came ostensibly as the result of the city's desire to improve already shaky town-gown relations...
...strides "Big Daddy." This time he is Boss Finley (Sidney Blackmer) a demogogic Southern politician, and he wears a yellow dressing gown instead of Burl Ives's white one. The first Big Daddy psychologically emasculated his son; this one threatens Chance Wayne with physical castration. It seems that Heavenly, the Boss's daughter, contracted a disease from Chance years ago and had to have a hysterectomy. In scenes of bogus dramaturgy, Boss Finley and his children snarl revelations at each other (e.g., he keeps a mistress) that should have been common family knowledge for years. Toward play...
...HAVEN, March 16--In a dramatic move designed to soothe town-gown bitterness caused by the St. Patrick's parade riot here Saturday, Yale University Deans today imposed "general probation" on the entire undergraduate body...
City and University officials were distressed over the collapse of town-gown relationships. Mayor Richard C. Lee was "too upset" to comment, and Griswold, calling the riots "boorishness," confined undergraduates to the campus until this morning...