Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Drama-starved Washingtonians approved; for the past eight months, the Negro-exclusion issue has left the capital without a professional theater (TIME, Aug. 9). Into the library's finely detailed, 270-seat reproduction of a roofless, balcony-ringed Elizabethan playhouse (which had housed many a learned lecture, but never a play), ticket holders crowded for seven sold-out performances of Julius Caesar. Television cameras moved in for an eighth performance...
...movies. Pointing to the box-office success of Henry V and Hamlet, FORTUNE said: "The audience that made these pictures successful is the market that the industry generally ignores . . . Many good pictures made in Hollywood have shown a loss, and discouraged the producer. But they were never really sold, or they were sold to the wrong audience . . . Actually this lost audience has to do the work to find the films it wants...
...skipping rope at St. Lawrence University in preparation for a tournament in which he became intercollegiate wrestling champion of the Eastern Division (1938-39)* By the time Mushy finished with him, Douglas was in such good ring training that the double who was hired to do his fight scenes never got before the camera...
...never set eyes on him, for which I am both sorry and glad; for ... all the men . . . who have seen him are such soft toads, they have done nothing but blast their eyes, and cry, ever since he was killed-God bless you! Chaps that fought like the devil sit down and cry like a wench...
Trafalgar Trust. Many an Englishman decided then & there that Nelson would never put to sea again. But the Lords of the Admiralty knew better. One-eyed, one-armed, rheumatic and bubbling with enthusiasm, Nelson left bed and boudoir and pursued the French fleet with his old, extraordinary combination of "unexampled patience" and fanatical excitement. "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" was his original cocky message to his fleet, but he "cordially approved" when an officer suggested that "England expects . . ." would be more to the point...