Word: griffith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combat it, the Russians permitted burly Nina to go to court to answer the charge of stealing five cheap hats from London's C. & A. Modes, Ltd. (TIME, Sept. 10). "I hope you won't put it against her," the shoplifting athlete's British counsel, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, told the court, "that she failed to surrender earlier." During the four hours of testimony that followed, Nina, wearing the same fawn-colored gabardine in which she was arrested, stoutly insisted that she had paid for the hats, although she could not remember getting a receipt...
...Outmanned, outgunned and outfought, a lame and lackluster collection of American League All-Stars took an embarrassing beating from their National League rivals in Washington's Griffith Stadium, 7-3. With a line-up heavily larded with Cincinnati Redlegs (five of the starting nine), superb pitching by Pittsburgh's Bob Friend and New York's Johnny Antonelli and some acrobatic fielding by St. Louis' Third Baseman Ken Boyer, the National Leaguers led all the way to win their sixth of the last seven games...
Carmen (Andy Griffith; Capitol). The slow-talking star of No Time for Sergeants does one of his wide-eyed explanations, this time of grand opera. The singers, he drawls, are high-priced and have "high roofs to their mouths." As for Carmen, she's "looking at this 'Escamilla' like she was stuck on him, and you can see why ". . . because he's a rale spowart. He lives about as far up town...
...honor roll for acting was almost tiresomely long: beyond established names like Bert Lahr, Ruth Gordon, Rex Harrison, Joseph Schildkraut, Shirley Booth, there were young or foreign ones like Julie Andrews, Andy Griffith, Earle Hyman, Siobhan McKenna. It was the season when, thanks to Comedienne Nancy Walker, Noel Coward's generation-old Fallen Angels was restored to life without having previously ever lived, when Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair, and when Susan Strasberg, in the title role of Anne Frank, was raised to stardom...
...Clifton '57, Thomas C. Cochran, Jr. '58, H. Chouteau Dyer, 2d '57, Sigo Falk '57, David F. Hawkins '56, John G. Johnson '56, James P. Jorgensen '56 (captain), Jon R. Lind '57, Peter W. Macky '57, Ronald P. Mischner '58, Duane J. Murner '58, Gregory B. Stone '58, Griffith J. Winthrop '58, Bruce M. Merchant '56 (manager...