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Double Door (by Elizabeth McFadden; Potter & Haight, producers). Victoria Van Bret (Mary Morris, malevolent Abbie in Desire Under the Elms}, a tyrannous New York aristocrat of the celluloid collar era, dominates her half-brother Rip and her younger sister Caroline with an insane despotism. When Anne Darrow (Aleta Freel of Both Your Houses}, Rip's nurse during an attack of pneumonia, is about to marry the Van Bret scion, Victoria forbids organ music, refuses to attend ' the ceremony, locks up the wedding presents and denies the bride the Van Bret pearls which are by will...
Married. Mary Lilian Uppercu. daughter of Inglis M. Uppercu, Cadillac agent; and George Winthrop Haight, Manhattan lawyer; in Rumson...
...water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly on the chasm's opposite bank. Two taxidermists from Elmira brought a pair of stuffed deer on rollers. Park Superintendent Frank Haight had almost decided that the deer should be left alone until it recovered from its lameness, when a message came from Albany ordering all rescue efforts to cease until the arrival of the State's Game Superintendent Gardiner Bump...
...your impudence in placing those words in my mouth. Your positive statement that I said I "had been hired by the U.S. Secret Service" is utterly false and a very bold lie. I have never said anything of the sort, and it simply is not true. . . . WILLIAM H. HAIGHT...
TIME regrets misreporting Sleuth Haight's activities. What he did say, to Assemblyman James W. Higgins of Wisconsin, was that, while in the R.O.T.C. in Chicago, he had been "picked out" with some other young men to sleuth Reds, report on them to the Secret Service. At Wisconsin he had continued this vigilance. He would gladly furnish Wisconsin's legislators with his data. His offer was accepted.-ED. Thick-Covered Ball...