Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ourtain falls on a stage covered with assorted corpses, an old man--one of the survivors--says "I didn't mean no harm," a statement which can be applied to Irwin Shaw and Peter Viertel, to the management of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and to almost everybody production. Shaw and Viertel, who wrote "The Survivors," far from meaning harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little...
Married. Maria Jeritza, 60, full-fashioned, bubbly opera star of the '20s; and Irving Peter Seery, 57, Newark umbrella-maker and opera-lover; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Young & Rubicam's research chief, Peter Langhoff, told the admen they had better find out, in a hurry. In six months, said he, the number of advertisers using television had grown from 89 to 211 (still far below the 1,150 national advertisers using radio). The television audience had grown to more than 1,000,000 (still 60% concentrated in the New York area). Furthermore, television programs, bad as they often are, had proved that they could shoulder radio aside...
...hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles-was Randolph McCoy's cabin. The land between was battleground...
Opinion at the Varsity Club is that Kenary will bounce back from the operation he underwent Monday night at Peter Bent Brigham and be ready to go come next fall. "It's easy to get soft and fat after an operation like that," one player commented. "Why just during the winter layoff Jimmy went from 185 to 198 pounds. But he plays baseball out in Worcester during the summer. That'll probably get him back into shape...