Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jovial farewell to the cast of The Entertainer, in which he played a boozy, aging song-and-dance man, Actor Laurence Olivier piped some 150 show-world guests (among them: Lena Home, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Bellamy) aboard a chartered excursion liner for a midnight cruise up the Hudson River. Garbed somewhat loosely in naval attire (explained mink-clad Actress Jessica Tandy: "I'm dressed as a Russian lady sailor"), Olivier's un-nautical crew dipped into champagne and stout, danced Scottish reels to the skirl of a bagpipe, taxied home from the cruise...
...Four weeks after her radical kidney-transplant operation at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (TIME, April 28), Mrs. Gladys Lowman, 31, died last week. Main cause: weakened defense against infection due to lack of white blood corpuscles. Forced to transplant a kidney from a child with no genetic relation to Mrs. Lowman, physicians had the problem of countering antibodies that would have rejected the alien organ. For the first time, they tried to solve it by destroying the antibodies' source, the patient's bone marrow, with X rays. Though new bone marrow was injected, it failed...
...following awards will be presented: the Air Force Association Medal to Cadet Colonel Peter A. A. Berle '58; the Association of the United States Army medal to Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Michael A. Boyd '58; the United States Marine Corps Gazette Award to Midshipman Ensign George H. Douse '58; the medals of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution to Cadet Lieutenant (USAF) John C. Rich, Jr. '59, Cadet Major (USA) Harold D. Gould, Jr. 3L, and Midshipmen Chief Petty Officer Charles E. Rossi '58; and the Reserve Officers Association medals to Cadet Captain (USAF) Bradshaw Langmaid...
John van Itallie '58, director of the current production I Am a Camera, will direct the summer's productions. The producer will be Victor N. Claman '58, former president of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Mark J. Mirsky '61, assistant producer, Peter B. Salisbury '58, lighting director, and William H. Batchelder '60, technical director, are also on the staff...
...private calypso party, she watched in awe as nimble "limbo" dancers wriggled under a ten-inch-high bar without touching the floor with their hands, showed no reaction (although officials blanched) when a calypso singer, in an improvised lyric, referred to her broken romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend. At week's end she flew off for ten days in Tobago, British Guiana and British Honduras. Behind her, in Trinidad, Prime Minister Adams dug into the knotty problems-including overpopulation, unemployment, tariff and migration barriers within the islands-that the new nation faces...