Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cock critical eyes from official launches. The contestants themselves train for months. This year Ken Collins, 21, a tireless lighterman from Bermondsey, sprinted into an early lead as they slid past Southwark Bridge and Saint Paul's. Behind him came Bob Gibbs, Jack Smith, Ken Green, Dave Reed and Malcolm Troubridge. Still in front when he passed the finish line at Chelsea after 27 min. 20 sec. of rowing, he was only eleven seconds ahead of Bob Gibbs...
...Florence Reed...
...title role is a virtuoso vehicle for a magnificent actress. Florence Reed is just such an actress. With close to 60 years of stage experience, she knows all the tricks in the book--and this role demands a great many of them. She has a full, rich voice and knows how to underline it with a straightening of the shoulders or a toss of the head. And there is her famous deep-throated chuckle that has almost become a trademark. No other actress is her superior in the ability to project perfectly from fortissimo to pianissimo. Though rather short...
...Ukrainian flute, the town's best dancer of the gopak (hearing of this, Stalin once ordered him to dance the gopak; he did), and a prodigious drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday costume of the Donets worker of his day, he was often seen around the taverns, downing yorsh and saying: "Beer...
...piece of old carpet" and "disintegrating with boredom." Jane McArthur brings sparkling eyes, a beautiful pony-tail coiffure and the buoyancy of Susan Strasberg to the part of the 20-year-old niece. As the elder niece Eva, Monica Lovett shows her inward sadness and disillusionment in good Donna Reed fashion. Lance Cunard and Dalila Mockapetris fill out smaller roles...