Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banquet on Friday night, probably at the Parker House, will open the conference, with Senator Harold H. Burton, Republican sponsor of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill bill, and Dean Mildred Thompson of Vassar College talking to the group. Dean Thompson has just returned from London, where she studied England's advances in education as a member of the Fullbright Commission...
This coach's dream is Charley Parker of Jefferson High School, San Antonio. He graduates this spring, and hopes to get in some college training under the Army's A-12 program. His high-school coaches call him "the ideal athlete." He never breaks training, is president of the Student Council, and gets nothing less than As in his studies...
...passenger list includes: a cynical journalist (John Garfield), a high-society snob (Isobel Elsom), her humble husband (Gilbert Emery), a golddigger (Faye Emerson), a country clergyman (Dennis King), a merchant mariner (George Tobias), an industrialist (George Coulouris), a charwoman (Sara Allgood), a pair of cultivated suicides (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker). Nearly all the parts are well played, though as individuals and as moral and social symbols, the characters seem over-genteel, stagily conceived, dated. But Edmund Gwenn is a competently ghostly steward, Sydney Greenstreet a subtly alarming embodiment of the Last Judgment. And compared with recent bows to the Beyond...
...wasted reams on speculation about how he got to Moscow and why he was there. He himself supplied one answer: he expected to hurry back to the U.S., explain Russia's side in the Polish controversy to violently anti-Russian U.S. Poles. From Moscow, New York Timesman Ralph Parker noted that the Russians would find a Catholic priest's help handy in placating Poland's intensely religious Catholics. In Washington, the State Department curtly explained the passport: it was issued at the request of a "friendly Government...
Died. Theodore Bissell Parker, 54, one time chief engineer of TVA's 1,400 engineers, short-time head of M.I.T.'s civil engineering department; after long illness; in Wellesley, Mass...