Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bankhead, husky, loud-spoken actress who played the lead (1939) in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, took umbrage at Playwright Hellman's comment in Moscow: "An actor doesn't make much difference to the play" (TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright...
Looking over the Sunday liberty list, we failed to find Casey "the Rabbit" O'Donnell partaking in the luxury. Could it be that his recent "H.P." has converted him into a bookworm--and then there's always the Charles River in June. Fred Stein has a sage remark or two about the cleaning service in Boston and requests that anyone who would like "vastly superior" service to contact his father, who is a dry-cleaning magnate--in Detroit. If this questionable weather continues, "T.C.U." Thomas says he's going home to Texas. Murray threatens to report him absent from muster...
...from Dartmouth. Hyde of Harvard, who did undergraduate work across the River, claims many laurels for the Boston womenfolk. Of course, he may be a bit on the biased side, but, as we Frenchmen say, "c'est la guerre." Yea, and then there is Sherman's oft-quoted remark, "war is Hell...
Nothing that Joseph Stalin said on Red Square last week made such a stir as was caused in Tokyo by his remark that Japan is "an aggressor nation." Said the official Japanese Domei agency: The Japanese people were "surprised and offended." It added: "The Soviet Nation is a realistic country, so in all probability her foreign policy vis-à-vis her neighbor is not wholly immutable. . . . Consequently, it is the firm belief of the Japanese general public that Japan must also adopt a realistic policy that will conform with any new situation created by the Russians." What Japan feared...
...take a hint next time from some shrewd fellows like Dan Phillips or Bob Shepherd and bring your happiness cast instead of going west yourself. Don welcomed his fiancee, Miss Beth Bidwell, and her mother to old Boston last Saturday. The second thing Beth did was to remark how much Boston reminds her of San Francisco...