Word: paton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Don Murray, 27, cowboy hero opposite Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop, and Actress Hope Lange (the teenage waitress in Bus Stop), 22: a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Name: Christopher Paton. Weight...
...poetry, Fitts' work is momentous progress over the literal rendering of W.R. Paton in the Loeb Classical Library; he has allowed himself what he terms "free paraphrase" and the result is sometimes startingly beautiful and strong...
...Strydom's government seemed at the moment to hold all the heavy weapons. How little hesitation the government had about using these weapons was suggested by the court summons issued last week to one of South Africa's most eminent citizens, Novelist Alan (Cry the Beloved Country) Paton. Paton's offense: he had spoken at a Negro rally to raise funds for the treason trial defendants without first obtaining official permission to attend a "non-European" gathering...
Foreign Service Officers, who under Acheson were made to feel that their chief was ready to come to their defense if they were attacked, have seen Dulles shy away from any contact with John Paton Davies or John Service, when these two men were placed on the sacrificial altar of anti-Communism. Men away from Washington were horrified by the State Department's cowardice in the Ladejinsky affair. Although these incidents did not necessarily demand the approach which Acheson took towards the accusations against Alger Hiss and Owen Lattimore, the lack of any outright defense of the State Department against...
...Late the Phalarope (adapted from Alan Paton's novel by Robert Yale Libott). It is too bad that so much of the serious writing for the theater should be mere rewriting-that playwrights should turn to novels for their plays, as though the best way to make a chair were to cut down a sofa. Alan Paton's dramatized African novel, like so many other adaptations, including Joyce Gary's dramatized African novel, Mister Johnson, loses the swell and amplitude of fiction without achieving the drive and intensity of drama. It is in some ways too obvious...