Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Lear had a shiner. Laurence Olivier, set to play the role in Paris this week, got it in a brawl with a minor Old Vic player who had attacked him, declared Olivier's lawyer, "without any excuse whatever." Wife Vivien Leigh gave the fellow a queenly belt over the head with a poker...
...most husbands do at least once, Malcolm Whitman, textile man, onetime U.S. singles tennis champion and Davis Cup player, came home one night wearing a silly grin and an expensive tie. His wife thought the tie was awful. She said she could make a better tie herself,† Dared by her husband, she did-and he was proud to wear it. Friends wanted to buy ties like it; Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch asked Mrs. Lucilla Mara Whitman to design ties for their customers...
...traps, and was situated somewhat obscurely at the very back center of the stage, the pained contortionings of his thin, mobile face and the adept drumstick twirling of his educated fingers got a great deal of attention from the audience. The drummer, the pianist, and the bass player, when they were functioning behind the clarinet, managed to build up a charged rhythmic setting which did fully as much for Edmond Hall as the tom toms used to do for Emperor Jones...
Fledgling P.I.A. was the baby of Clement Melville Keys, 70, who has sired many a line. A onetime classics professor, hockey player, and reporter, Keys got into big-time aviation by winning control of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., built around it a web of manufacturing and financial companies until he was probably the No. 1 U.S. air operator. In 1932, when he retired from aviation because of his health, Keys was a top executive of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., T.W.A North American Aviation, Inc., and a director of some ten other aviation companies...
...bass drum began . . . . but it ended with a three-wheeled drum carriage and a bruised Blue . . . . quick action saved the day for the drum, and it rolled on the field again just in time to join the half-time serenade of the Elis . . . a slightly besotted tuba player performed on his instrument and around it . . . . and the Wintergreen medley once again brought down the house...