Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bedridden in a rambling old-world mansion outside of Dublin. The De Valera government, for which and against which she had fought so bitterly, had grown complacent and tired. For years Dev's party, the Fianna Fail, had known no effective opposition, but last month Ireland's Joan of Arc was helped from her bed to go to the polls and vote in a national by-election...
...only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey, dean of Fuad el Awal and leading man in Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke up an Egyptian cabinet, and Shaw now goes unread...
...previous advance sale record was set by the Workshop's "Saint Joan" last spring...
Died. Lincoln Ross Colcord, 64, spinner of sea tales, authority on nautical lore; of coronary thrombosis; in Belfast, Me. Colcord created a long-remembered sensation in 1929 when he publicly debunked-Joan Lowell's best-selling "autobiographical" sea story, Cradle of the Deep, as so much romantic fiction, caused the Book-of-the-Month Club to offer refunds...
...playing time to learn that in spite of all his talents he was born to be a Geek. Stan is one of the most wholehearted and resourceful heels yet to leave a print on the U.S. screen. He climbs a ladder made of ladies. Rung No. 1 is Zeena (Joan Blondell), the midway's mentalist. He plays cozy with her just long enough to swipe a pseudo-telepathic formula through which he can graduate to the big time. No. 2 is a luscious, loyal dimwit named Molly (Coleen Gray), whom he marries. No. 3 is Lilith (Helen Walker...