Word: mc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...debut, Playwright Jerry Mc-Neely, 29, deserved credit not only for an original fancy but for making his fable's dilemma both wonder-struck and plausible in the telling. By ingenious design, his exchanges between Mr. White and Mr. Black abounded in ambiguously open-ended clues to their real identity. He also managed a neat solution: a staring match between the contenders, proposed by the ornery town skeptic to keep the town from stampeding in favor of Mr. White. Isolated in a drawn circle, the two stared and glared away for days, without flinching or even growing a whisker...
...York-born Dubois speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese, travels 100,000 miles a year from his base in Panama as a roving reporter and Hemisphere drumbeater for the Trib. His reporting is sometimes ponderous in the Gothic provincial style approved by the late Colonel Bertie Mc-Cormick (who discovered Dubois when he was working oh the Panama Star & Herald), but it is always authoritative and accurate. And among newsmen, Dubois' scorn for censors-and his ingenuity in outwitting them-has made him a legendary figure...
Born. To Francis Murray Patrick Mc-Mahon, 54, oil-rich Calgary wheeler-dealer (TIME, Jan. 14), board chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd.. and Betty Betz McMahon, 37, onetime Hearst teenagers' columnist: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Francine. Weight...
...writers in three seasons in his frenzy to stop slipping. As the play opens, he is on the eve of an attempted comeback that seems doomed by his panicky fear of failure. In a series of skillfully managed flashbacks, Tully tells where the skids led him. As the comic, MC Hal March of The $64,000 Question gave a fine performance. Unfortunately, Tully's salvation, i.e., the love of a good woman, is almost as glib as his wisecracks. But thanks to Author Aurthur's grip on the character, the problem and the jangling atmosphere...
...charge of the United States Department (lending and deposit relations with banks, other businesses outside Manhattan) in 1949. He succeeds J. Stewart Baker, who continues as chairman of the executive committee and as one of Chase Manhattan's two top executive officers (the other: Chairman John J. Mc-Cloy). David Rockefeller, youngest son of John D. Jr. and nephew of former Chase Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, was born in New York City, educated at Harvard ('36), with postgraduate study at the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1940. After...