Word: hef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quean & Old Maids. Whatever Fry's faults-and his exuberance bursts with faults, as with virtues-he has put both arms under poetry and bounced hef back on the stage. And the poetry he so manhandles is not a girl with short-cropped hair and horn-rimmed glasses, but a lively quean who can dance, weep and love, and values nothing so much as a warm heart and a glad eye. Writes the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, noting Fry's faults as a dramatic technician: "Mr. Fry may be a little deficient in talent...
Jerusalem Chronicles is the brain child of Polly Van Leer, wife of a Dutch-Jewish industrialist. After hef husband went to Israel to manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library...