Word: holroyd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play As Prologue. Last week the battle was joined at Sloane Square's Royal Court Theatre, a small auditorium where advanced people gather to witness advanced plays. The current offering was The Tenth Chance, a first play by 25-year-old Stuart Holroyd, about a Norwegian resistance leader in World War II. By the middle of the last act, Holroyd's agnostic hero was beginning to find God in the extremity of his suffering at the hands of Nazi torturers. Up stood Christopher Logue, 31, a leftist poet passionately engaged in the campaign to ban the bomb...
...closed or we'll get him." "Stay out of my life, Wilson," growled Tynan and pushed past to join his wife and Logue in the pub next door. They were barely seated when the door burst open, and in poured the Exemplars. Scattering longhairs and spilling beers, Wilson, Holroyd, Playwright Michael (Yes-and After) Hastings, 20, Novelist Bill (The Divine and the Decay) Hopkins, 29, and their partisans pushed up to the Exertionists' table. "I'll crush you with my Daimler," screeched Holroyd's wife Ann, who is rich and has one. Wilson grabbed Logue...
...Singles match will take place at 3 p.m. on the "center court," with R. Israel meeting Dick Holroyd. Holroyd defeated E. Senehi in the semi-final round yesterday, while Israel ousted D. Keesing earlier in the week by the score...
...recent rounds of the Men's Singles, Senehi defeated P. Cox by forfeit; Holroyd defeated R. Balking (6-0, 6-0), T. Tully defeated H. McLean (3-8, 8-6, 6-0), and Israel defeated D. Keesing...
...Singles, E. Senehi defeated S. Frieder (6-4, 13-11); P. Cox defeated E. Helfeld (6-3, 6-4); R. Holroyd defeated D. Shapere (6-1, 6-2), R. Balkin defeated K. Smith (6-2, 8-6); T. Tolly defeated D. Terris (6-1, 6-3); H. McLean defeated W. Cox (10-8, 6-4); D. Keesing defeated R. Marcus (9-7, 6-1); and R. Israel defeated W. Clayton...