Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Always Interested. In Italy, Muriel had her first son, Paul Jr. In Italy, too, she fell under the spell of the gilded intellectual and artistic set of pre-1914 Europe-Art Critic Bernard Berenson. Violinist Albert Spalding, Actress Eleonora Duse, Dilettante Mabel Dodge, and John Reed, who later glorified the Russian Revolution in Ten Days That Shook the World, and now lies buried beneath the Kremlin wall...
...Basin, it was blocked for 14 years by angry farmers whose land would be flooded, and who argued instead for a federally financed program of soil conservation (contouring, terracing) and small detention dams on the land to hold the water where it fell. Each year the late Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas knocked the Tuttle Creek item out of the engineers' money bill...
Outcast of the Islands. Joseph Conrad's hothouse drama of a white man's disintegration in the tropics, strikingly directed by Carol (The Third Man) Reed; with Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley (TIME, April...
Broadway felt much the same way about her abilities. Critic Dorothy Parker helped brush Kate off the stage with the withering comment: "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.'' Producer Joseph Verner Reed thought she might be better at high hurdles than at acting. Playwright Benn Levy said flatly: "She looks a fright, her manner is objectionable, and she has no talent...
Married. Robert L. Smith, 21, first quadruple amputee of the Korean war; and Barbara Borm, 17, a volunteer worker he met when she visited the Army's Walter Reed Hospital; in Washington. In November 1956 Smith lay wounded in a ditch for three days; by the time he was rescued his hands and legs were so badly frozen they had to be amputated...