Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Counsel Seth Whitley Richardson, 65, is a Republican. A mild-mannered man with a lucrative corporation practice in Washington, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Hoover administration. His boss then was William DeWitt Mitchell, whom he now succeeds as committee counsel. Unlike Mitchell, he will be paid for his services (at the rate of $750 a month...
...mainstay of Old Vic repertory, Actor Richardson is currently playing lead in two of its other productions, Arms and the Man and Uncle Vanya. He and his great friend, Actor Olivier, split the big male roles, as a team are unmatched today on the British stage...
...artist's son, Richardson started acting at 18, has seldom been without a part since. A hardworking, not very confident, thoroughly un-actory actor, he trudged slowly to the top, has also made a name for himself in British cinema (The Citadel, The Silver Fleet). In 1935 he made his only U.S. appearance, as Mercutio in the Katharine Cornell Romeo and Juliet. In 1939 he joined the Fleet Air Arm, "flew all day and never thought of anything. I was deaf as an adder and had a wonderful appetite." Last year he and his fellow flyer, Olivier, were released...
According to his friend J. B. Priestley, who has written a couple of plays for him (Cornelius, Johnson Over Jordan), Actor Richardson could have been equally as successful as a painter or a writer if he had put his far-better-than-average-actor's mind...
...Offstage Richardson is a complete homebody, living near Hampstead Heath with his wife and infant son. He is never seen in nightspots, and totes books to the theater to read between acts. He has never been rich, never-in his own estimation-poor: "I've been down to five pounds, but then that's quite...