Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...District Judge Irving R. Kaufman, who presided over the atom-spy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, speaking at Fordham University Law School: "The space age promises to require far greater concessions of national sovereignty to international control and regulation. Earth satellites are circling the globe now in about the same time that it takes to get from Brooklyn to The Bronx by subway.* Since Sputnik, the question 'How high is up?' has taken on vast new significance. While historically sovereign jurisdiction extends to the air above the land, it would be totally unfeasible for such jurisdiction...
This is a first novel about a small New York businessman that blends folk humor with wisecrack as if Sam Levenson had had his jokes edited by George S. Kaufman. Hero Bill Roth, 23, is an ex-G.I. working for his engineering degree who lives with his parents in The Bronx. He sleeps on a sofa couch in the living room "on the main trade route from the bedroom to the bathroom." When he stays out late with girls or comes home with liquor on his breath, he is treated to his mother's virtuoso sighs...
Based on a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr., Millard Kaufman's screen play relates the tribulations of a young Indiana school teacher. In the years just preceding the Civil War he deserts his college sweetheart to marry a designing Southern heiress. After war breaks out, she goes insane, crosses the lines with their young son, and ends up in a madhouse. Whereupon our hero hits upon the questionable scheme of enlisting in the Union Army so he can go south to find her. Of course he does, and after some further unlikely accidents it all ends happily enough...
...optimistic about being able to put him to work. Says a CBS executive: "Personally, I think he's a very big talent. But audience for satire just isn't big enough to pay off. He's the living proof of George S. Kaufman's famous line that 'satire is what closes on Saturday night...
Female Performance: Louise Bell, as Gloria in Alonso's "Death of Don Juan"; Phyllis Ferguson, as the sister-in-law in Kaufman's "Babylon Revisited"; Lee Jeffries, as Sally in "Six Strings...