Word: orchards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...favorite author is Jack London but, he admits, "I've never read much of London or anyone else." He has seen only one stage play in his life (The Male Animal). He is so innocent of the theater that he called one of his TV shows The Cherry Orchard and was flabbergasted to learn that a writer named Chekhov had beaten him to the title by almost half a century. For backgrounds, Buffalo-born Wilber draws heavily on his own experiences and on stories he has heard during his tours of duty on such papers as the old Buffalo...
Ever since the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd has been picking apples and refusing any public commitment either to Stevenson or Eisenhower. Last week, in a radio address, he came out of his political orchard. Said he: "I will not, and cannot, in good conscience endorse the National Democratic platform or the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket." But he did not, in so many words, ask anyone to vote for Eisenhower...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Wisteria Trees (adapted by Joshua Logan from Chekhov's Cherry Orchard), with Helen Hayes, Joseph Cotten...
...Video Theater (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Geraldine Brooks in The Orchard...
...wide. Farmers and their families were ordered from their homes and moved eastward, bag & baggage. In the Harz Mountain village of Hötensleben, some 2,000 inhabitants were ordered to pack up and get out within four hours. A farmer near Hünfeld, ordered to cut down his orchard, burn his house and move east, loaded his wife & children on a farm wagon, tied his cows on behind and fled to the West. The police had orders to shoot on sight anyone found in the first eleven yards of the isolation belt. Life in the bordering belts was hedged...