Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philipsburg, Pa...
Pickets tore up their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope. In Homestead, Pa., smokeless for 26 days, they quickly made some smoke by burning their strike placards, accidentally setting their picket shack afire...
...immigrant (from Radna, Rumania), short, bustling, bespectacled Theodore Andrica (rhymes with Eureka), 45, knows the immigrant's nostalgia for the old country. Broke when he landed in the U.S. in 1921, he worked as an orderly in a Buffalo hospital, was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in Erie, Pa., changed from cleric to bank clerk, drifted to Cleveland...
Lute Song (adapted from the Chinese Pi-Pa-Chi by Will Irwin & the late Sidney Howard; music by Raymond Scott; produced by Michael Myerberg) is the season's loveliest production and most charming failure. A retelling, with music, dances and pageantry, of a 500-year-old Chinese classic, it never quite catches the inner glow of art or the outward stir of theater. There should have been either less spectacle or less story. As it is, the old tale is retold at considerable length, but loses much of its flow and human feeling through gorgeous interruptions and sumptuous distractions...
Married. Helen Taft Manning, 24, granddaughter of President William Howard Taft, wartime FEAide in Washington; and Holland Hunter, 24, wartime FEAgent in India; in Rosemont, Pa...