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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Britain's Lord Chamberlain Roger Lumley, Earl of Scarbrough, offi cial censor of public stage plays, slapped a ban on Playwright Miller's latest one-acter, A View from the Bridge. "The play has a theme of incestuous love," ex plained Miller ruefully. "That got by all right, but the censor objected to a scene" in which two men embrace one another." ¶ Wife Marilyn was getting mixed no tices. From her old (69) acquaintance, Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, with whom La Monroe sipped gin and grapefruit juice, came a highbrow huzza: "She's quite remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...theory that a winning combination should be broken up before it turns stale and complacent, the Wings had given their line-up a thorough overhaul after winning hockey's Stanley Cup last season. Major change: Goalie Sawchuk, untried in the National League, to replace Veteran Harry Lumley (who was sold to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armor-Plated Rookie | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

Greatly Exaggerated. In Newcastle, England. 82-year-old Thomas Dixon got a divorce, on grounds of desertion, from the wife who left him 43 years ago. In Chicago. Mrs. Genevieve Lumley complained to the judge that, among other things, her husband told friends she was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 16, 1950 | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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