Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cocker Caravan. Calling her Margaret Lydia McGlashan Burton instead of Janet Gray, the FBI arrested her, following charges that she had embezzled some $100,000 in two years from the cashbox of the Decatur Clinic. They also arrested Westminster's Candy, who turned out to be not Margaret's niece but her daughter, Sheila Joy Burton...
...played by Patricia Neway, who won awards for it six years ago in New York. She is a superb actress as well as a consummate singer, and I found her performance here even more exalted than on Broadway. All the other singers were fine, notably Norman Adkins, Ruth Kobart, Lydia Summers and Leon Lishner. Chandler Cowles' staging was first-rate; and Evan Whallon's handling of the orchestra was expert, except for letting the piano play too loudly...
...Lydia C. Weare, the director of the Center, remembers the early days when "We used to know everybody, the names of their dogs, and all their problems." Now she marvels at the capacity of Brattle House to accommodate 1,600 weekly students enrolled in courses in 70-odd subjects...
...legions of good friends who disagreed with every one of his opinions and prejudices. He had a passion for great literature, classical music and for people (even preachers, politicians and boobs). He liked nothing better than a terrapin dinner, washed down with good beer (and a toast to Lydia E. Pinkham), followed by an Upmann cigar and an evening of sparkling conversation. In his robust way, he loved America, once said: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing." He also loved his life, which he summed up in a famous epitaph for himself: "If, after...
Novelist Kenneth (Northwest Passage) Roberts likes men who pull their weight. His heroes are generally fellows whose characters are compounded of the good, old-fashioned virtues, and their crises sometimes find them with little but hope to sustain them under pressure. His new novel, Boon Island-the first since Lydia Bailey in 1947-is a grim little tale of survival. Based on a true story, it tells of a shipwreck in which each man's size and courage are fully measured during 24 days of simple horror...