Word: leigh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre viking village and to vegetate the countryside with 4,000 bushy-bearded extras; to reproduce a navy of 33 viking ships-a flotilla only slightly smaller than the Norwegian battle fleet; to man his foredecks with such well-known Scandinavians as Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh; and to hire, as the big name for his billboard, Actor Kirk Douglas...
Obviously, the god has preserved him for a better fate, and she soon appears in the startling form of Morgana (Janet Leigh), a captured Welsh princess. Einar drools by the barrel, but before he can sully her honor, she has fled with Eric. "Let's not question our flesh," he tells her, "for wanting to remain flesh." Thereupon he bends the oar for a not very merry England, where after interminable bouts of slashing and bashing, swilling and swiving, everybody seems to go positively berserk with happiness-except possibly the adult members of the audience...
When Inland decided to build its own headquarters at Dearborn and Monroe Streets, opposite its old offices in a bank building, it set a basic goal. "We are the only major steel company with headquarters in Chicago," said Inland Vice President Leigh Block. "We wanted a building we'd be proud of, one that spelled steel...
Among the first tenants in the new building will be Chicago's civically proud Association of Commerce and Industry. Its decision to move there added point to Leigh Block's assertion: "In a city of dark buildings, our new building offers a ray of hope and cleanness and, I think, drama...
Died. Dorothy Leigh Sayers Fleming, 64, erudite, cherub-faced whoduniteer (The Nine Tailors), translator (Chanson de Roland), playwright (The Devil to Pay), rapier-witted Anglican writer on theology (Creed or Chaos?); of a coronary thrombosis; in Witham, England. One of Oxford's first women graduates (Somerville College, 1915), Dorothy Sayers gained fame and fortune with her deft mysteries, wrote religious dramas for the Church of England's Canterbury Festival, worked since 1947 on her magnum opus, Dante's Divine Comedy in a vivid, homiletic translation, completed two canticles (Inferno, 1949; Purgatorio, 1955) before her death...