Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady Says "No!" (by Denis Johnston; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) followed John Bull's Other Island as the Dublin Gate Theater's second Broadway offering. A highly expressionistic fantasy first produced in 1929, it tells of an actor (Micheál MacLiammoir) who is accidentally knocked unconscious while playing Irish Rebel Robert Emmet (1778-1803) in a costume play. The rest of The Old Lady consists of the actor's delirious visions: he is still Emmet, but an Emmet wandering through the streets and pubs and literary gatherings...
...three Charles E. Wilsons (no kin to each other) who are top executives of General Motors Corp., General Electric Co. and Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; nor to Norman W. Wilson, head of Hammermill Paper Mill Co., Edward F. Wilson, head of Wilson & Co., John L. Wilson, head of St. Louis Public Service Co., Laroy W. Wilson, head of Advance Aluminum Castings Co., H. W. Wilson, head of H. W. Wilson Book Co., nor to any of the dozen-odd Wilsons who head other large U.S. companies...
Protective Coloration. On Treasure Island, Calif., the Navy finally found Watertender James L. Telfer, listed as a deserter for two years, during which time he had lived in an empty naval barracks and played on a Navy baseball team...
Understander. In Baltimore, George L. Jones ran to help at a fire, was treated for back injuries after he was landed on by: 1) Mrs. Calvin Muller, who fell off a rope; 2) Mary Paddy, who fell from a third-story window; 3) Calvin Muller, who fell from a second-story window...
Living Dangerously. In Monmouth, Ill., Constable Jess L. Berner went to the hospital with ax wounds after he tried to serve an eviction notice on 80-year-old, 4-ft. tall Mrs. Elizabeth Jean Snedeker...