Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME (Jan. 24) absentmindedly followed Who's Who and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which count Grover Cleveland twice-as both 22nd and 24th Presidents-thus make Herbert Hoover No. 31 and Franklin Roosevelt No. 32. But Harry Truman, with the backing of the Congressional Directory, has decided that he is the 32nd President...
...small office in Wilmington, Del., E. Herbert Tinney performed an annual rite. A onetime accountant for Price, Waterhouse & Co., Herbert Tinney earns $5,700 a year as the only paid officer-secretary and assistant treasurer-of Christiana Securities Co. Last week he sent out Christiana's annual report. In 1948, the company had netted $28.4 million, a substantial gain over the $23.3 million earned in 1947. For each of Christiana's 150,000 common shares, this was an earning of $182.72. Tinney mailed out all but 2? a share of this to Christiana's select little band...
Story No. i (The Facts of Life) is a pleasant, inconsequential gag and No. 2 (The Alien Corn) a piece of out & out bathos. But script No. 3 is a solid bite of meatiest Maugham. The Kite is the story of Herbert Sunbury (George Cole), a simple-minded city lad with a possessive mom (Hermione Baddeley) and a small boy's passion for flying kites on the local commons. But Herbert's young bride wants him with no kite strings-nor silver cords-attached. When he refuses to cut loose, she kicks him out and plays...
...twist on an old theme, Producer Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil) and Director Arthur Crabtree have built a wryly humorous study of lower-middle-class life in a London suburb. The camera moves with a sharp, knowing eye from the vulgar pretensions of tea in the Sunbury parlor to Herbert's wonderful kite straining and swooping in a fine summer breeze. Though Herbert and his wife are happily reconciled (over a kite string on the commons), the movie never compromises with the silver cord. As Herbert's mom, Hermione Baddeley gives a viciously distinguished performance...
...Herbert J. Hesketh '50 bcame secretary of the Glee Club last night after a special election in Sever 11. He succeeds Dale Wickham '50, who has been appointd manager by the Glee Club executive council...