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Attempting to hastle according to the stage directions, Stanley Holloway leads the cast as the liquor-loveing philanthropist. He is effective in several of the early scenes, but finally succumbs to the thinness of the story. Hugh Griffith playing the Thunderbolt's fireman delivers the most convincing performances. Unfortunately, only a few laughs depend upon his part...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: Titfield Thunderbolt | 12/3/1953 | See Source »

...third quarter Harvard fumbled, and Yale recovered on the Crimson 32. Don Griffith flipped to McGill who caught the ball on the right flank, and raced over for the score. In the last period the Yardlings fumbled again, this time on the Yale 22, and the Bulldogs, considered the best Eli team in six years, moved 78 quick yards, with Heyward Meyers plunging over from the two yard line with three minutes left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unbeaten Eli Yearlings Give Yardlings First Loss, 33-13 | 11/21/1953 | See Source »

...German, French and Italian, with a scholastic background of study at Vassar, Barnard and the University of Berlin. This year she learned how TIME handles its network of foreign correspondents and the flow of international news to the magazine. She worked as secretary to Foreign News Editor Thomas Griffith. At night she studied journalism and comparative literature at Columbia University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 21, 1953 | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

Robert W. Boyd Jr., Edward O. Cerf, Thomas Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...finally, she met the man she wanted to marry: John MacBride, "a wiry, soldierly looking man, with red hair and skin burned brick red by the South African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart, and two years later they separated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Death of a Patriot | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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