Word: helens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pretty Penny," her 21-room house in suburban Nyack, N.Y., abounds in memories: a wood carving from Alex Woollcott, a clock from Richard Burton, a salad bowl from John Barrymore. "Bric-a-brac, that's what it all is," says Theatrical First Lady Helen Hayes, 63, who has already put up for sale the house where she spent nearly three decades with Playwright Charles MacArthur. This week the dishes, furniture and memorabilia-more than 1,000 items-will be sold at auction on the front lawn, with proceeds going into a scholarship fund named for Daughter Mary, who died...
...subsidiary. Spencer's President John C. Denton, 44, was just as eager to accept Gulf's offer. He felt a need for more expansion capital to meet sharpening competition, especially in the plastic lines Spencer also makes. Spencer received several other suitors before settling on Gulf. Mrs. Helen Spencer, the largest shareholder, with 14% of the 3,000,000 outstanding shares, particularly liked what she felt was Gulf's "empathy" toward the firm that her late husband started from scratch...
...others, especially the younger, university-educated group, apartheid smells too much like Nazism. In the 1961 general election, Jews voted massively against the National Party, and the lone anti-apartheid crusader in the 160-member Assembly today is the pert, irrepressible Jewish wife of a Johannesburg physician, Mrs. Helen Suzman...
...Arts; five records, $29.75) is the understatement of several years. The late monologuist was one of the most formidable artists in the history of the U.S. theater. Her monologues were not stunts but acute siftings of men and women as social beings. Her Doctors and Diet is worth 100 Helen Hokinson cartoons, her Three Generations in a Court of Domestic Relations pours oceans of immigrant experience into a mother's tears. The Italian Lesson, beginning with Dante's "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost...
Short range warnings of dangerous flares are fairly simple through observation of radio waves, says Dr. Helen Dodson-Prince of the University of Michigan. She can predict several hours ahead when a dangerous blast of protons will hit the earth. This warning is early enough to abort a space shot, or to tell an exposed man on the moon to dive for cover, but it is not much use for scheduling long missions. The prudent Dr. Dodson-Prince wishes that the U.S. moon push could be postponed until the next period of solar quiet, which will start around...