Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such intellectual moment as the birth of a Lippmann column, the setting is deceptively casual. Lippmann, a lean, angular and agile man of 69. is dressed carelessly in his writing habit: grey pullover sweater, corduroy slacks, white wool socks and loafers. He has taken breakfast with his wife Helen, a handsome woman decidedly Lippmann's intellectual peer. He has paid brief but fond attention to his French poodles, Vicky and Coquet. He has concluded thoughtful tours of three morning papers, with stops at all the international datelines. Across Woodley Road and through his study windows drifts the gay, playtime...
Behind those pronouncements lie 45 years of uninterrupted heavy thinking. Walter Lippmann never stops thinking, not even when scrambling around the Maine rocks with Helen at their summer place near Bar Harbor. "Walter," fretted his wife one day as he tripped over a boulder, "look. Don't think." For Lippmann, this is the idlest advice. He cannot help thinking. Where other journalists run after the news, Lippmann prefers to ponder...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A drama that painfully parallels Chicago's recent parochial school tragedy. An accidental fire that burns down part of a Catholic home for small girls provides a coldhearted mother superior (Helen Hayes) with a startling excuse to warm up to the kid who caused the trouble...
...HELEN A. SHENITZ...
...Touch of the Poet. Eugene O'Neill is as long-winded as ever, but it's a powerful wind that blows a lot of good in this tale of a boozing innkeeper and his crumbling illusions. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...