Word: leland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actress Margaret Sullavan (The Voice of the Turtle) sued Agent Leland Hayward for divorce after nearly twelve years, three children...
...Broadway (Tues. 7 p.m., CBS Television), the first of a series of televiews of Broadway hits. Like many a try out performance, the show needed tightening and pruning. It ran ten minutes overtime, poked around too long backstage. There were too many interviews (with Author Thomas Heggen, Producer Leland Hayward, Henry Fonda and the cast), too little of Mister Roberts. "It's really much better when you see it," commented a woman televiewer. Television and Broadway agreed, hoped that this week's try (at The Heiress) would be better...
...Roberts (adapted by Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan from Mr. Heggen's novel; produced by Leland Hayward) was a smash hit (advance sale: $400,000) weeks before it arrived on Broadway. Cased out of town, it was rumored to be out of this world. Happily, it is one of the better things in it: a good show superlatively produced; a rowdy, romantic, sometimes rather touching, sometimes uproariously funny wartime chronicle...
During its whole visit, the comet acted as if it wanted to dodge human observation. Astronomer Leland E. Cunningham of the University of California, who worked out its orbit from data collected in Australia, reported that it slipped out of space on the far side of the sun. Sweeping around the sun within a whisker (9,000,000 miles), it stayed for the most part near the line between the sun and earth. It was therefore hard to see, like a fighter plane diving on its enemy "out of the sun." In the southern hemisphere it was visible...
...Harold S. Spear '48 at Lowell D-42, Thomas W. Cameron '48 at Winthrop H-31, B. Lyle Shafer '48 at Leverett K-41, Lloyd I. Rudolph '48 at Duster A-21, Austin L. Wyman, Jr. '48 at Adams C-26, Daniel D. Chabris '48 at Kirkland G-11, Leland E. Holly II '48 at Eilot 0-31, Paul J. Douglas '50 at the Dudley Hall desk, or 14 Plympton Street by mail...