Word: helens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Process. In Philadelphia, traffic court Magistrate Jacob Dogole called it a day after 1) Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morgan, charged with lending a motorcycle to an unlicensed driver, proved she didn't own one, 2) Helen Porreca, accused of illegal parking at a certain address, proved there was no such street, 3) Edward Gishen, also up for illegal parking, proved that he was out of town with his car at the time, 4) Timothy Credan and William J. Leahan Jr., charged with passing stop lights, proved there were no such lights...
...greatest playwright of the past 25 years, decided 500 theatrical people polled by Theatre Arts magazine: Eugene O'Neill. The best cinema writer: Robert Sherwood. The top stage performance of the past quarter-century: Helen Hayes in Victoria Regina. Running a hairbreadth second: Laurence Olivier in Oedipus. The best cinema performance: Charles Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux. Running second again: Olivier in Henry...
...budding modems were equally impressive. An abstraction that looked like a diagram of ballet positions for a dancing telephone, by Black Mountain's Ruth Asawa, was the. exhibition's high point in originality. Another girl student-Helen Kae Carter of Iowa State-sent a successfully elaborate still life of kitchen utensils hanging in midair; it was the happily screwball kind of experiment that professionals, with livings to make, seldom get around to. Philip Ciotti of the Carnegie Institute had explored the thin world between abstraction and reality to produce his weird, orange Newspaper Office (see cut). The result...
Remington and his wife, said Miss Bentley, were dues-paying Communists. She had met them with Golos in New York City. When she was in Washington she would telephone him and say, "This is Helen" (to some others she was "Joan" or "Mary") and arrange to meet him. Some times it was at a drugstore across from the Willard Hotel; some times it was at the National Gallery of Art. Did Remington understand what she wanted? Said Elizabeth Bentley: "Certainly." At their meetings, Remington was "very nervous, very jittery, obviously scared to death that anybody would find...
...fortune finally smiled on him. He caught the eye of President Theodore Roosevelt by subduing the fierce Moros of Mindanao. The President praised him publicly, attended his wedding to Helen Frances Warren, daughter of Wyoming's Senator Francis E. Warren. In 1906 Roosevelt caused a sensation by promoting him from captain to brigadier general over the heads of 862 other officers...