Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Howard Toft. Daughter Helen Taft Manning, 67, told her favorite yarn about her portly (300 Ibs.) father and his much-lampooned girth. When Taft was Civil Governor of the Philippines and recuperating from an illness, he reassured Secretary of War Elihu Root of his recovery by cabling Root that he had just ridden 50 miles on horseback. Crackled back Root: "How is the horse...
...understand what any reference to clubwomen, suburbs, or Helen Hokinson had to do with Wellesley...
When Actress Kim Stanley quit the cast of A Touch of the Poet, Eugene O'Neill's current Broadway hit (TIME, April 6), it was rumored that she was feuding with Broadway's First Lady Helen Hayes (Kim's mother in the play). Fed up with the lingering flap, Actress Hayes, in a letter last week to weekly Variety, said: "There were times, late in the run, when Kim would have tried the patience of a saint, with her striving for [an] opening-night level of performance-even on rainy Thursdays. But nothing will wipe...
Although Stanley's steamer had not mentioned her at all, Helen Hayes, Broadway's "First Lady," who played Kim's mother onstage, tried to lift her own skirts well clear. "We have worked together with the greatest understanding and sympathy," said Actress Hayes. "I am an innocent bystander...
This only reminded her friends of her constant complaints. "Portman was just a red herring," said one Hayes intimate. "The trouble was between Kim and Helen." Old Pro Hayes was sorely tried by the Method in Kim's acting. "I don't feel like being touched tonight," said Kim before one performance, and so a tender mother-and-daughter scene was played without a caress. Another time, Helen Hayes was quoted as saying, "I got two elbows down my throat from the girl...