Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist's last testament to offbeat life, suggesting that a sinning outsider may have the inside track...
...careless Pantagraph printer may space out a short front-page column with a local item, but no printer commits the sin twice. Besides Frank Starzel, about the only Pantagraph editor to break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...
Died. Laurence Housman, 93, English playwright (Victoria Regina), novelist, brother of the late Poet A.E. (A Shropshire Lad) Housman, pacifist, pre-World War I woman-suffragist, satirist (The Life of H.R.H., the Duke of Flamborough); in Glastonbury, England. An icily patrician figure with dark eyebrows and a white, pointed beard, Laurence Housman described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded...
Some of Manie's Friends (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). The list reads like a Who's Who in Show Business. Caesar, Hope, Como, Sinatra, Cole-all friends of NBC's late Vice President Emanuel Sacks, all working for union minimum to make possible a sizable donation to Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center. Color...
...Touch of the Poet. The late Eugene O'Neill fashioned the season's best drama around a boozed-up innkeeper and the illusions that hold...