Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transport Association in San Francisco last week, British Overseas Airways' Chairman Sir Miles Thomas let out some jet-hot news. "This time next year," said Sir Miles, B.O.A.C. will have a commercial jet passenger liner on its London-Australia route. It will be the new 36-passenger De Havilland Comet (TIME, Jan. 2). B.O.A.C. expects that the 500 m.p.h. plane will cut the flying time for the 12,000-mile route from 68 to 33 hours...
After her year-old son, Benjamin Briggs Goodrich, was christened in San Antonio's St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland (Mrs. Marcus Goodrich) announced that little Ben was to grow up to be a Supreme Court Justice "because justice is so important in the world...
...Novelist John Steinbeck's Burning Bright, and Producer Cheryl Crawford has Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams' The Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls as Dame Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Jessica Tandy, Lilli Palmer, and possibly Tallulah Bankhead...
...quiz program. The winners carried off armloads of shoes, shirts, dresses, loaves of bread. Some of the youngsters were suspicious of the friendliness they encountered. The owner of a big Berlin movie theater invited the kids to come and see the show (The Dark Mirror, with Olivia de Havilland). Afterward, one 16-year-old thanked the manager: "It was very nice indeed. Yet when I come to think of it, why did you invite us? There was nothing political in the film? I've got to think it over...
Deerfield has had its share of injuries, too. Midfield star George Lunt has been sidelined by a leg bruise, and coach Ben Havilland has been experimenting with various midfield combinations...