Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote, I will fix it in due course-at the latest, four years after the actual restoration of peace . . . The ensuing period of time will be devoted to resuming normal existence, to emptying the camps and prisons, to permitting the return of exiles, to restoring the free play of individual and public liberties and to enabling the population to become fully aware of what is at stake . . . But what will this political destiny finally...
...Drama School. Then he moved hopefully to Broadway. "As a playwright," he remembers, "I achieved the rank of hotel night clerk at 22, nightward attendant in a psychiatric hospital at 25, a magazine copy boy at 28." It was while he was a copy boy (at TIME) that his play Bullfight became an off-Broadway...
...other offers. Shrewd, tough and resourceful, Otto Graham was an All-America tailback at Northwestern University, passed and ran the Cleveland Browns to seven league championships in a glittering ten-year professional career that ended in 1955. Last year, proving he could coach big-time football as well as play it, Graham turned assorted college players into a smooth unit that trounced the world champion Detroit Lions in the annual all-star game...
...much as anyone," he said. "I even want to beat my wife at croquet. But football should be fun-even for the coach. It may sound corny, but I believe that line about 'it doesn't matter who wins or loses-it's how you play the game...
...detail brilliantly mated. If added tribute goes to Actress Leighton, it is for a certain marvelously sustained manner: she is all hoity-toity airiness and verve. Though the rest of the production, barring George Rose's lively Dogberry, is much of a piece with the rest of the play, both are well worth putting up with for the sake of the stars...