Word: peters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exhibit stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but, in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
Some of the entries suggest that Spook-Spotter Mader is a bit out-of-date. He has Dr. Peter Howard Selz as curator of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, a post he left three years ago for the University of California. He lists William Henry Hylan as a CBS network vice president; Hylan went to the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in 1963 and has been there ever since. August Heckscher appears as a writer on the New York Herald Tribune; Heckscher, now New York City parks commissioner, left the Trib in 1956, and the newspaper closed down...
...secret was so intimate that she confided it to none but the London Daily Mail, the London Daily Sketch and their 3,000,000 readers. After four years of wedlock, Swedish Starlet Britt Eklund, 25, was parting with Comedian Peter Sellers, 42. The frantic pace of traveling with Peter was what did it, she said. "It might sound fabulous, but you can't imagine how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world. I always travel with my tape recorder, radio, camera, ten framed pictures of my family, my very...
After some administrative wrangling, Harvard's Eastern League baseball team got permission to play in the NCAA District I playoffs at the University of Connecticut. Harvard's success has rested heavily on Ray Peter's strong right arm. The 6-5 junior was 7-1 in the Eastern League, but he got hitting support from League batting champ Dick Manchester, shortstop Jeff Grate and centerfielder Carter Lord. This was Coach Norm Shepard's last year at the helm after a 14-year career; his record: 198 wins, 99 losses...
...compensatory education, community schools, federal regional schools, and so on. The theoretical pros and cons of these proposals have generated a lot of discussion--but the fact remains that no one knows to what extent any of them might be effective, or what their unanticipated consequences would be. Says Peter Labovitz, lecturer in city planning at Harvard and consultant at Arthur D. Little, "We are quickly finding out there's not much to study in theory. We need reality-testing...