Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy's week was mostly social and ceremonial. In his oval office, he chatted with the visiting Lord Mayor of Dublin about politics, the Irish Derby and his upcoming visit to Ireland. A delegation including Actress Joan Crawford, chairman of "Stars for Mental Health," presented him with a gold miniature of a bell cast from the shackles that once restrained inmates of a mental asylum...
There are those who neither rebel nor assert egos but are consumed by a vision, like Buddha, Pascal, St. Joan, Mary Baker Eddy. There are the converts who see a sudden or a slow light for which they surrender their past, like St. Paul or Mary Magdalene or Cardinal Newman. There are those who are willing to defy the class or service to which they belong, like Savonarola or Franklin D. Roosevelt or Billy Mitchell, and those who fulfill their individuality in the sometimes more difficult discipline of submission...
...Hagen has made hers an accomplishment. After a year at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she made her debut as an Óphelia considerably taller than Hamlet, who was played, oddly enough, by Eva Le Gallienne. She became a memorable Desdemona and a fine St. Joan. She followed Jessica Tandy as Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois with a performance so good that it was generally conceded to be the better of the two. She won another Tony award as the relentlessly dowdy wife of a fading star in Clifford Odets' Country Girl...
...starts, he had never been beaten. "I've got the right horse," said his jockey, Willie Shoemaker, who had ridden six of the nine entries. But for the first time that anybody could remember, there were two undefeated horses in the field. Eastern money was on Joan Whitney Payson's No Robbery, who had won all five of his races by a minimum of 2½ lengths. Then there was Captain Harry Guggenheim's Never Bend, the richest horse of all, a dark bay with $502,484 in his bankroll. At post time, Candy Spots...
Chardon, Ohio JOAN KOVATS...