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Word: nightward (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school to tour with Orson Welles (a truant officer brought him home from Philadelphia); he put in a couple of years in stock, went to Yale Drama School. Then he moved hopefully to Broadway. "As a playwright," he remembers, "I achieved the rank of hotel night clerk at 22, nightward attendant in a psychiatric hospital at 25, a magazine copy boy at 28." It was while he was a copy boy (at TIME) that his play Bullfight became an off-Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Happy Hack | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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