Word: granting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman. Thus she misses the tenderness that must go with the hate that she must feel almost against her will. She captures little of the depth of soul or wisdom from suffering--"We want to hear the things that will hurt us"--that the script would seem to grant her. Richard Galvin as the Bridegroom seems slightly foppish in the part and his stage presence is at times lacking. John Heffernan is perhaps the best actor on the stage in the extremely difficult part as the lover of the Bride. As his wife, Roz Faber likewise shows superb comprehension...
...House has recently completed walling off a room in the basement which will be used for the sections. The remodeling was financed by a combination of funds from the Ford Foundation grant to the House and of money from the University. Furniture for the new room was gathered from other rooms in the College...
...keeping with old-line Hollywood etiquette, Gossipist Louella O. Parsons announced formally that the mayor of Palm Desert, Calif, (pop. 3,000), Old Groaner Bing Crosby, 53, and his bride of almost four months, Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant Crosby, 24, are expecting a little wailer in August. Flashed Lolly: "Kathy said that either a girl or a boy would be welcome." The rest of the press caught up with Kathy herself as she filled out an enrollment card at Los Angeles City College, where she will bone up on psychology and sociology while waiting for motherhood...
...Lincoln manuscripts. Among them: a draft of a letter from Lincoln to an Illinois friend concerning the merits of re-electing a Congressman, Richard Yates, later governor of Illinois. The malicious word had spread that Yates had the same weakness that was to create complaints about General Ulysses S. Grant. Wrote Honest Abe, in endorsing Yates: "Other things being equal, I would much prefer a temperate man to an intemperate one. Still, I do not make my vote depend absolutely upon the question of whether a candidate does or does not taste liquor...
...best letter on why a military man shouldn't be President of the U.S. that's ever been stated ... He gave me a copy of it and I've still got it, and I never used it on him at all ... Zachary Taylor and General Grant and the present occupant of the White House are good men. They're honorable men. They want to do the right thing, but they've been educated in a manner that's like a horse with blinders on-he only sees one direction right down the road...