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...Nora didn't want to settle for a magnolia & moonlight life on her father's Mississippi plantation. Her discontent spilled over: "Sometimes I wish I were a nigger or an Indian or anything that would keep me from having to be myself, Nora Potter, who goes to parties and pays calls, and sits by quietly, with nothing to say, while Mama does all the talking." Mama really talked incessantly, but now that Nora was up North, she too found her tongue, and ended by talking too much. She told her cousin Austin King, who was already married, that...
...flat on her back with eyes bandaged for a year, finally regained her sight). Alicia, the best of the younger classical dancers, had seldom done modern dance before. But, right after dancing the queen in Swan Lake, she returned to the stage as Lizzie, to sub for ailing Nora Kaye. Alicia, as much as Agnes, made Fall River Legend an opening-night success...
John A. Manuick '49, Nora Millard, Radcliffe '48, and Patricia Troxell, Radcliffe '49 will play the three characters in Christopher Fry's "The Phoenix Too Frequent." William Whitehead '60, Grace Tuttle Radcliffe '49, Virginia Carroll, Radcliffe '51, and Joan Rice, Radcliffe '51 have been assigned the roles in Tennessee Williams "Lord Byron's Love Letters...
First to handshake his way past the Trumans in the white & gold East Room was the dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...
...Nora's prediction of social acceptance comes true but Frieda's true feelings still are not evident and only become so when her brother, an-unrecalcitrant Nazi, appears on the scene. His fanatical sentiments for a united German people and a repetition of the last war "again, and again, and again" are rejected by her along with the swastika medallion he presses into her palm. That is why she tries to commit suicide when her husband believes she must be a Nazi at heart upon learning her brother's beliefs. It is then that Aunt Nora realizes she cannot...