Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both dealt with the French Section of Special Operations Executive, which was responsible for dropping agents and weapons to the French resistance. In Death Be Not Proud* Author Elizabeth Nicholas considers the fate of seven brave young women agents of the S.O.E. Four of them-Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Sonya Olschanesky, Andree Borrel-were thrust into the Nazi crematorium at Natzweiler and burned alive. The other three also died in a concentration camp, if not quite as horribly...
...Fairfield, Conn. 53 Marchiano, John '60 C 20 6.2 200 Philadelphia, Pa. 54 Wilson, Frank '60 C 19 6.2 190 Atlantic Hghlds., N.J. 55 Velleco, Peter '61 C 20 6.0 171 Shelton, Conn. 57 Walsh, Jim '60 C 22 6.1 195 Philadelphia, Pa. 62 Leigh, John '61 G 19 6.0 189 Ambler, Pa. 63 Greco, Ralph '61 G 18 5.10 195 Orange, Conn. 64 Cummings, Bruce '59 G 18 6.1 194 Branchville, N.J. 65 Pisacane, Frank '60 G 20 5.10 186 Shelton, Conn. 68 Kelly, Ray '59 G 20 5.11 199 Archbald, Pa. 71 Troychak, Dennis...
Humbert's obsession began in a dreamily distant beach resort where he met and desperately loved a girl-both being unlucky 13. Since Humbert is given to puckish literary references, the girl's name, of course, was Annabel Leigh (Poe spelled it Lee). After Humbert's early love is interrupted by shame and death, he incessantly searches for a return to that lost, childish kingdom by the sea. He searches through the mail order catalogues of Paris whoredom, through a low-comedy marriage, through Central Park-until he finally finds Annabel's reincarnation in Dolores Haze...
Onstage, to ripples of applause, staggered a game, gimpy theatrical trio-Sir Laurence Olivier, his wife Vivien Leigh, Cinemactor John Mills-for a painful song-and-dance. The show, at a benefit for an English orphanage, barely-creaked through. During a zesty rehearsal the day before 1) Sir Laurence strained a tendon, 2) Vivien, leaping into Mills's brawny arms, slipped and twisted a knee, 3) Mills cropped up with a case of sore ribs...
...actors-sponsored orphanage, Sir Laurence Olivier showed up with the ginger-tinted beard and undipped hair he let grow for his film version of Macbeth. His role: at the "Night of 100 Stars" revue July 24, Sir Laurence (in top hat, white tie and tails), with wife Vivien Leigh and Cinemactor John Mills, will trip onstage for a buck and wing...