Word: respectively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father (Warner) has been treated by Hollywood with the care and respect that is due the biggest hit in the history of the stage. Warner Bros, bought the play for $500,000 down plus a sizable percentage of the gross receipts. In the filming, Father was a major effort in Technicolor fidelity to an original. Every scene added to the cinema version was developed from the original sketches of Clarence Day, and the picture was made under the supervision of Playwright Howard Lindsay and of Mr. Day's widow...
...film would be worth seeing if only for these portraits and the psychological story which they tell; but it is also fascinating as a specimen of modern, secular hagiography. In that respect it can wholly satisfy only those who are unquestioningly convinced of Roosevelt's greatness. The claim that the picture is completely nonpolitical is absurd. It is not only intensely political, but biased and sentimental; e.g., there is no recognition of such failures in international diplomacy as the Yalta conference. The comments of the plain people who remember and tell the Roosevelt story are mawkish examples of common...
Symbolic of the respect paid by the nation, the state, and the city, Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, Governor Robert F. Bradford '23, and Temporary Mayor John B. Hynes arrived at the Yard in advance of the funeral cortege which was making its way from Brookline...
Then Texas-born Hughes went on to describe himself: "I'm supposed to be capricious, a playboy, eccentric, but I don't believe I have the reputation of a liar. For 23 years nobody has questioned my word. I think my reputation in that respect meets what most Texans consider important...
...Hard Way. In his year in Dallas, Vern Swartsfager, Curate of St. Matthews' Cathedral, has rescued hundreds of teen-agers like Benny from crime and the police. He has won the respect of gangsters, delinquents, tycoons and teachers. But Father Swartsfager himself has not always been so singleminded. The son of an artificial limb manufacturer, he was thrown out of three schools and two universities (Temple and the University of Pennsylvania) for "recalcitrance." He had no idea what he wanted to do ("All I knew was that I didn't want to be an artificial limb manufacturer...