Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Daddy's Hands. In California Adlai Stevenson's supporters had to sell him as more liberal than Kefauver. To ward that end, they imported an entirely different breed of Democrat than the Floridians brought from Mississippi. From New York they summoned onetime (1944-50) U.S. Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt to testify as "character witnesses" for Stevenson's liberalism, particularly on the civil-rights issue. As any performer in the political circus knows, flying cross-country from the hands of Sam Wilhite and Daddy Sikes to the trapeze platforms of Helen Douglas and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...market under the Columbia label. NBC, which has done well from its investment in Call Me Madam, Me and Juliet, Fanny and the current Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne hit, The Great Sebastians, will put up the money for a new musical, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston. NBC also promised one novelty: before the new musical reaches Broadway this fall, it will have a preview on television...
...another field, there would seem to be a strong possibility that a degree in literature will be offered. If so, leading contenders appear to be either Lewis Mumford or W. H. Auden. Elsewhere over the weekend, Helen Hayes, a leading female candidate for a degree, did not wait for Harvard to start celebrating her 50th year in the theater. She received a degree from St. Mary's College on Saturday in South Bend, Indiana...
Last year, the Corporation broke its long-standing rule of not awarding honorary degrees to women. Helen Keller was the first winner; this year, another uncontroversial woman such as Helen Hayes, who marks her fiftieth year in the theater, may win. A more controversial figure, but still a possibility, is Eleanor Roosevelt...
Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Lovers, Villains and Fools, with Helen Hayes as narrator...