Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...League soccer schedule is not yet completed, since Brown must play Penn Thursday, but as of now, Princeton leads the league, with the Crimson in second place, followed by Cornell, Yale, Pennsylvania, Brown, and Dartmouth...
...Opening in a new play is just like catnip to a kitten!" says Actress Helen Hayes, in her first week as the rollicking, white-haired, fuzzy-headed Duchess in Time Remembered. Shy, tiny (5 ft.) Actress Hayes, regarded by many as the First Lady of the American theater, is delighted to be back on Broadway in her first original role since Mrs. McThing in 1952,. "I couldn't bear to think of anyone else playing that delicious Duchess," she explains. "I guess I was just waiting for the right play to come along...
...while it had seemed doubtful that the right play would ever come along again. In 1956, after her husband Playwright Charles MacArthur died (their daughter Mary died of polio in 1949), Helen told reporters that she was thinking of retiring. But after reading Time Remembered, she changed her mind. She threw herself into rehearsals with her old-time energy, got a special insight on how to play the Duchess while listening to a recital on a virginal (a 17th century harpsichord). "Suddenly it hit me," she says. "I'd been playing the old Duchess like pounding a bass drum...
Buoyed by her current rave notices, she will not predict when she will retire, although she already has her final play picked out: Cockadoodle Daisy, written for her by husband Charlie, who drew on the life of Lady Elsie Mendl, the acrobatic nonagenarian decorator who wore her hair blue and regularly stood on her head. "But I'm not ready yet," says Actress Hayes. "After all, I'm only 57, and Lady Mendl lived to be over 90. I think I'll put it off for a while...
...thousandths of an inch at a time, a job that took 24 hours. But for Navy Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who closely checked the building of the reactor at Shippingport (and of the Nautilus), the whole point was to make the plant "safe enough for my son to play in." To persistent questions from businessmen about the high costs, Rickover has one stock answer: "You people are asking for conception without...