Word: leacock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story of Harry and Davy has been made into a surpassing movie, The Little Kidnappers (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists), directed by Philip Leacock and written by Novelist Neil Paterson (Man on the Tightrope), whose script is a fable as deep-going and sweet-running as any on the children's shelf. The innocence of the children. Jon Whiteley as Harry and Vincent Winter as Davy, pierces the heart like a spring morning, and Duncan Macrae and Jean Anderson are fearfully true to life as the boys' Scottish Calvinist grandparents. The photography, by Eric Cross, fills the background...
...Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, got so tired of the great sleuth that he had wicked Professor Moriarty shove him over a waterfall, restored him to life only after a public clamor. Humorist Stephen Leacock also tried his hand at rubbing Sherlock out: he put him on all fours, entered him as a dachshund in an international dog show, and had him painlessly destroyed for not having a dog license...
That moved West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew Neely to remark that Gillette "in effect, told us to go to the birds." The success of this retort inspired Neely to still further heights. He suggested that the Senate borrow from the late Humorist Stephen Leacock...
...Senator Neely can't tell Stephen Leacock from Roland Young, who wrote The Flea...
...night Dunham showed up with a girl who could sing. He had met Barbara Leacock, Wellesley '51, on a blind date. The good-looking brunette had a voice that pleased Dunham's fellow musicians and she became a featured vocalist on the band's College engagements during the following year. They put on two concerts in the Lowell House Junior Common Room and broadcast Monday nights...