Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Travel Expense. In Memphis, six members of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion conferred, finally decided to pay the expenses for Minister Eric S. Greenwood's wife to travel with him to a convention in Hawaii, because "husbands can't be allowed to go running all over the globe by themselves...
...MATUZELS Greenwood Mountain...
...Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with a pretty widow (Joan Greenwood). Widows, as somebody in the picture remarks, are irresistible because "if you are better than the first [husband], they are grateful, and if you are worse, they are not surprised...
Died. Arthur Greenwood, 74, treasurer of Britain's Labor Party, for 37 years a top figure in British Socialism; after long illness; in London. Dour, scholarly Greenwood, known because of his encyclopedic knowledge as "The Human Blue Book" was Minister without Portfolio in Churchill's wartime coalition Cabinet (1940-42), served Labor governments as Minister of Health and Lord Privy Seal, turned down a viscountcy because of his distrust of hereditary titles...
...days--three years ago--the situation was reversed. Joan Greenwood starred in Young Wives' Tale and she managed to make Miss Hepburn's brief role in the film seem even more negligible than it was. The picture deals with the problems of two young couples and their children sharing a house. Thrown in also is a perplexed nanny, baffled by the interchangeable embraces the spies between the various mates. Miss Hepburn is on hand as a man-hungry secretary who considers any male civility a proposition...