Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works of Shakespeare. He is not the first to find, for instance, that four whole lines from Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love turn up again with hardly a word changed in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, or that after Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" Shakespeare echoed him (in Troilus and Cressida) with "She is a pearl,/ Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships." But Hoffman also lays down scores of absurdities which parallel nothing but his own wishful...
...HELEN GARLETT...
...home stretch of her Far Eastern tour in behalf of overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said...
...With Helen Hayes, Mary Martin, and (in his first acting job in 21 years) famed Playwright-Producer-Director George Abbott...
...Helen Choate Bell Prize of $400, won by Alice A. Cooper '56 for "The Superb Monotony: A Study of the Experience and Writings of Wait Whitman...