Word: helens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club, the President left the grounds only to drive to church. He was up most mornings by 7:30, had eaten breakfast* and was in his small office above Golf Pro Ed Dudley's shop by 8 o'clock. There Ike worked with Secretaries Ann Whitman and Helen Weaver, received Washington reports delivered by his staff secretary, Colonel Andrew Jackson Goodpaster. Only top business got attention: routine matters were put aside until the return to Washington...
...Omnibus (Dec. 16, 9 p.m., E.S.T.) will stage a play by William Saroyan, The Christmas Tie, with Helen Hayes as a refined shoplifter...
...considerable. Iowa-born Ziffren, 43, is a political Johnny-come-lately who concentrated on practicing and teaching tax law around Chicago after graduation from Northwestern University. Moving to Los Angeles in 1943, he dipped a toe in the political pool by campaign fund raising. In 1950 he helped stage Helen Gahagan Douglas' unsuccessful battle against Dick Nixon for the U.S. Senate. Ziffren was named national committeeman in 1953, immediately set about reorganizing California's clanking party machinery, is given credit for the Democrats' 1956 gains in Congress (two) and the state legislature (two senate seats, five assembly...
...role of Aunt Martha is pleasantly played by Helen Ray, who looks the part but sometimes tumbles over her lines. The role of Teddy is unruinable: charging up the stairs (San Juan Hill), plunging down to the cellar (Panama), bellowing, or bugling, George Lipton does nothing to diminish the preposterous comedy of his role. Mortimer is acted well, but Hugh Reilly often forces excessive gusto or thickheadedness into his part. The glowering Jonathan is solidly acted by George Cotton, who, sadly, looks like Orson Welles instead of Boris Karloff (the role was written as a parody of Karloff, and Karloff...
...dispute arose because of what students termed "inedible" food and poor service, reportedly the fault of Miss Helen Andrews, Berkeley's dietician...