Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen years ago Cleveland-born Grace Hoffman, now 34. was working as a cashier and bar checker at a watering hole on Broadway hard by the Metropolitan Opera House. Last week she turned up at the place across the street, this time as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. To cover the 100-odd yards, she had to travel to the musical capitals of Europe and back again...
...distrust of Gaillard among the Independents is matched only by their horror at the prospect of taking over his job (and with it, the onus of settling with Tunisia). With ill grace, the right-wingers backed down, announced that they would postpone until this week their demand for a full statement from the Premier on the negotiations with Bourguiba. Sighed Felix Gaillard: "Another week of survival, but that...
...Quick, before the script blunts it, is as mean and keen as a cackle-edge scythe. And Eula Varner, she of the "kaleidoscopic convolution of mammalian ellipses," is divided into two slender young beauties named Lee Remick and Joanne Woodward-but Woodward plays her part with a fire and grace not often seen in a movie queen. And old Will Varner, "thin as a fence rail and almost as long," is transmogrified into the Falstaffian figure of Orson Welles -but Welles, in the first role he has done for Hollywood since Moby Dick, demonstrates decisively that if in the meantime...
Born. To Princess Grace of Monaco, 28, and Prince Rainier, 34: their second child, first son; in Monaco. Name: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. Weight: 8 Ibs. 12 oz. (see PEOPLE...
...this spare, direct first novel by a 25-year-old Californian, the members of the triangle are less interesting than the author's skill at triangulation. The draftee hero is clean-cut enough to be a sidekick of Frank Merriwell. The girl is sweet enough to grace a soap ad. And the bedeviled antagonist is the victim of an unconscious drive that makes him pathetic rather than villainous. Yet this is the kind of book that demands to be read at one sitting: the people may not be important, but their story...