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...White House. We began moving forward. Officers yelled: "Scatter! You want to all get killed at once?" We panted up a big hill. In the middle of an almond orchard we came out on another crest. Here, with two walkie-talkies, the Colonel again set up his command post...
Less famous than The Cherry Orchard, but just as good, The Three Sisters pictures hopes and longings turning to frustrations and regrets. The three Prozoroff sisters and their brother Andrey live discontentedly in a dull provincial town. Olga, the eldest (Judith Anderson), is already half-doomed to schoolteaching and spinsterhood. Masha, the second sister (Katharine Cornell), is a bored neurotic married to a fatuous pedant. Irina, the youngest (Gertrude Musgrove), still high-spiritedly dreams of romance. Brother Andrey (Eric Dressier), an intellectual weakling, still dabbles with the idea of a Moscow professorship. They all have one thing in common...
Russian Revolution. With his four turn-of-the-century plays-The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard-Anton Chekhov, a tuberculous Russian doctor, quietly effected a revolution in the theater. Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic, uneventful picture of life-the life of a fiberless leisure-class Russian society...
...year man in the machine-tool section of OPM. Stifled there by red tape and bungling, he soon left, bought the venerable Sunnyvale (Calif.) Joshua Hendy Iron Works, whose physical assets consisted chiefly of a dilapidated foundry, an assortment machine tools, 35 acres of pear orchard's and some skilled machinists. One of them, Peter McKeand, ground the shaft for the old U.S.S. Oregon. In the spring of 1941 Moore got a contract for twelve reciprocating marine engines. By midsummer, after the shipbuilding program was trebled, Maritime Commission's Jerry Land telephoned Moore and asked if the Hendy...
Year of Plenty. In Orchard Park, N.Y., Mrs. Edward F. Schwabel gave birth to twins for the second time within a year. First pair were girls; second pair, boys...