Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leathery, poker-faced U.S. Ambassador Alan G. Kirk, Admiral, U.S.N. (ret.), came home for a holiday visit from his Moscow post, where he had found himself a mariner becalmed in the eye of a hurricane. He slipped in quietly to see Harry Truman, reportedly told the President he could detect "absolutely no evidence" that Russia is about to start...
...rest of the defensive squad is Ed Bell (Penn), Hollie Donan (Prince), Lemonick, Gerry Audet, (Col), Tom Johnsoen (Mich), Herb Agocs (Penn), Speare, Bill Kirk (Cor), Lowel Perry (Mich), and Doyne...
...Geological Conference will conduct a symposium on the work of the late Kirk Bryan, professor of Physiography, at 8 p.m. tonight in the Geological Museum Lecture Hall...
...taken Tennessee William's comedy and faithfully translated it into celluloid. Marion Brando's screamingly funny performances on Broadway is here duplicated by the antics of Kirk Douglas; and Jane Wyman, as William's limping heroine, gets her own share of laughs. Gertrude Lawrence's characterization of a fading southern belle however, while funny, cannot come up to the standard set by Douglas. "The Admiral was a Lady," with this at Boston's Metropolitan Theatre is nearly as good...
...Kirk Douglas is competent as the "gentleman caller" but is outclassed by Miss Lawrence, Miss Wyman, and Mr. Kennedy and, whereas in the play the caller was a doltish sort of a fellow putting on an act, he emerges as a bright, slick young man in the screen version. Somehow the original caller was more consistent with Williams' description of the entire work "a picture of a fundamentally enslaved section of American society. . . living in huge buildings always burning with the slow implacable fires of human desperation...