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...discussion group at Cornell, but refused to name any of his associates on the grounds of "honor and conscience," and of the Fifth Amendment. Among the questions which he refused to answer were "Did you know Wendell H. Furry as a member of the Communist Party?" "Did you know Helen Deane Markham to be a member of the Communist Party?" nd "Was Wendell H. Furry engaged in hose Communist activities with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Velde Committee Carries Approval Of Congress On Contempt Charges | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...blue-chip cast, all old pros, managed to brush away much of Royal Family's dust. Fredric March, who played Tony, the skirt-chasing screen idol, in both Hollywood and Broadway versions, roared and pranced through the TV adaptation with his old gusto. Helen Hayes, as the family's irascible matriarch, and Claudette Colbert, as the harassed heroine, played warmly and well, supported by the harrumphs of Charles Coburn as the family manager. As a play, Royal Family was not the best starter for a prestige builder. The madcap antics, the entrances and exits tended to jumble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Died. Helen Nicolay, 88, daughter of Abraham Lincoln's personal secretary, John G. Nicolay, and author of popular biographies of popular people (MacArthur of Bataan, China's First Lady); of a heart ailment; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Sauce for the Gander. In Chicago, Vito Piovosi, seeking an injunction to keep wife Helen from molesting him, testified that when he cooked a roast loin of pork for Sunday dinner, she: 1) shouted, "What, no applesauce?" 2) threw roast and platter at him, 3) picked up the platter and broke it over his head, knocking him unconscious, 4) poured hot gravy over him as he lay on the floor, 5) stalked out of the house and never returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

...Rome's mammoth Cinecitta, Troy was razed for the third time in 3,000 years as Warner Bros.' two-acre wood and papier-maché reproduction of the ancient city (for Helen of Troy) was 80% destroyed by fire. As betogaed extras battled the blaze, cameras churned away for an hour and a half, leaving Warner's hopeful that it could salvage some usable footage from a $95,000 holocaust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Aug. 30, 1954 | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

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