Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fair Lady. The Old Vic's Macbeth is less successful largely because Actor John Clements, as the thane who would be king, interprets the role in a cloppish manner that might be described as early Kirk Douglas. Disconcertingly, he even looks like Kirk Douglas, but with red hair. And his "Tomorrow and tomorrow" creeps at a petty pace. But the production is redeemed by Barbara Jefford...
...Birchers were taking their lumps last week. On Jack Paar's TV show, Richard Nixon said that politicians "who accept or seek the support of organizations like the John Birch Society are not serving America." Barry Goldwater, wrote Conservative Russell Kirk, has warned that "responsible conservatives cannot condone political silliness." The conservative
...other matches in the top five, the Crimson's Doug Walter defeated Princeton's Kirk Kitson in three games, 15-3, 15-6, and 15-5; while Roger Wiegand lost to the Tigers' Steve Cox, 11-15, 15-12, 16-13, and 15-14. Playing at number five, Lou Williams collected a win for the Crimson in straight games...
...Webster Parish, La., Negro Joe Kirk tried unsuccessfully four times to register. On his fourth try, the registrar invoked a proposed Louisiana law-which was not really passed until five months later-disqualifying parents of illegitimate children. Testified Kirk at a commission hearing: "She asked did I have any illegitimate children. I said, 'Not as I knows of. If I has, I hasn't been accused of.' She says, 'You are a damned liar.' I just smiled; I could still give the smile. Then she said, 'I know you were going to tell...
...only command possible -the evacuation of the army from Dunkirk, the last northern French port left in Allied hands. Ironically, it was called Operation Dynamo. At first, the job seemed impossible, and officers gloomily reckoned on saving no more than 45,000 men. German bombers had ruined Dun kirk's seven modern dock basins. Because the beaches were shallow, small craft were needed, and the navy, in a brilliant recruiting operation, found them. By dawn of May 30, the first wave of an astounding cockleshell armada was heading across the Channel. There was never a navy like...