Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elaine May's screenplay, Beatty got to work on casting. Possibly the hardest role to fill was that of Mr. Jordan, a heavenly bureaucrat played by Claude Rains in 1941: both Cary Grant and former Senator Eugene McCarthy were talked about for the part before it went to James Mason. Only at the last minute did Beatty decide to try directing for the first time. "I asked Mike [Nichols] and Arthur [Penn], but they were busy," he says. "Then I thought the next best thing would be to do it myself." But Beatty, who becomes deadly serious when working, decided...
Thomas L. Mason Portland...
...editor a good scare. The art of suspense did not come easily to Erie Stanley Gardner. He never did learn much about writing character, not to speak of description. But he became a master plotter and one of the most prolific and successful authors who ever lived; 82 Perry Mason novels, which have sold over 300 million copies, are only part of his output (over the years he took several pseudonyms...
...task because she wrote long, favorable reviews of his books. It seems more likely that impenetrable discretion won her the job. Gardner was clearly a very eccentric man, an upstart as a boy in California, a brazen and unorthodox young lawyer in Ventura County, Calif. Many of Mason's more bizarre tactics resembled his creator's. In the most famous, Gardner sprang a group of Chinese from gambling charges by substituting other Chinese at the addresses where they were to be picked up; the local prosecutors could not tell the difference...
...regrettably appears content with the status quo, confident that Harvard parents will sacrifice anything. As an alumnus, I find this position hubristic. As an educational administrator, I hope Harvard will revive the leadership role in financing higher education demonstrated by its own Medical School a decade ago. Bayler F. Mason '51 Special assistant to the president, Boston University