Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the productions new to Broadway will be: Laurence Olivier's production of Christopher Fry's Venus Observed, with Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison; Fancy Meeting You Again, a play about reincarnation by George S. Kaufman and Leueen MacGrath; Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk's Modern Primitive; Enid (National Velvet) Bagnold's Gertie, starring Glynis Johns...
Reuters Correspondent Leopold Herman, veteran of ten years' service in Iran and a newsman with a special reputation among his fellow correspondents for painstaking accuracy, was ordered from the country by the government last week. The charge: false reporting. Said the government: Herman's story that Mossadegh recently left the Majlis chamber under armed guard because of the mob outside was not true. Replied Herman: all the correspondents on the spot had seen the guard. Herman is the fourth correspondent who has been ousted from Iran in six months...
Charles Oliphant was a second-generation Government lawyer. His father, Herman Oliphant, served as general counsel of the Treasury Department (1934-39). Charles, now 42, went into Government service when he got out of the University of Maryland Law School in 1934 and became the Revenue Bureau's chief counsel in 1947 at $14,800 a year...
...best books of the year found the large public they deserved. As 1951 drew to a close, Rachel Carson's triumph of popular science, The Sea Around Us, headed the nonfiction bestsellers, and Herman Wouk's clear-eyed novel about the war at sea, The Caine Mutiny, topped the fiction list. But the biggest single phenomenon was the success of the paperbound reprints. With about 100,000 drugstores, newsstands and bookstores displaying them, the paper-bounds sold the staggering total of 231 million copies-or about two for every man, woman & child in the U.S. over...
...first grand-scale opera since Peter Grimes, 38-year-old "Benjy" turned again to tragedy and the sea. He took his story from Herman Melville's novel of the British navy during the Napoleonic wars, and enlisted one of Britain's leading literary lights, Novelist E. M. Forster, to work on the libretto along with Eric Crozier, an old hand in Britten operas...