Word: harcourts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer is. invariably, "Sorry, we're full up." Last week, shocked to discover this discrimination policy, Lord Altrincham resigned. "One of the reasons that you have given me for maintaining this iniquitous state of affairs," he said in a bitter letter to League Chairman Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, "is that you do not want to alienate the South Africans. Instead of setting an example, we are allowing ourselves to be influenced by a nation whose theory and practice of race relations is condemned by liberal opinion throughout the world." "The club," huffed Admiral Harcourt in response, "is not suitable...
...BLACK OBELISK (434 pp.)-Erich Maria Remarque - Harcourt, Brace...
...FLYING Fox (310 pp.)-Mary McMinnies-Harcourt, Brace...
...INNOCENT (370 pp.)- Madison Jones-Harcourt, Brace...
...manner into a go-minute teleplay that had consistency, pace and believability. Good direction (by Vincent Done-hue) carried the story past Gilroy's occasional rough spots and got good performances out of a good cast. Sarah Churchill was a handsome, if not sufficiently Scott Fitzgeraldean, Bess Harcourt of the mill-owning Harcourts. Particularly when it came time to let the hypocrisy in his soul take over from the loyalty in his manner, Peter Lawford effectively carried Willis Wayde to his ultimate decision: if he could not have Bess, he would have her family mill...