Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road to conventionality; we are asked to have sympathy for her failures; we are asked to be in sympathy with the morals from which she reparts, and finally, with her triumph--a respectable marriage. All this sympathy we would gladly give if Marjorie were not so remarkably like Richardson's Pamela--if she ever showed any sign of not becoming what she ultimately does. If it seemed that Marjorie had any choice in the matter of whether she would be Lady Brett Ashley or "Shirley," in short, if she were not so awfully dumb, then we would be more likely...
Died. Helen Richardson Dreiser, 61, widow of Novelist Theodore Dreiser (An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie), author of My Life with Dreiser; of a heart attack, after being bedridden since 1951: in Portland...
...virgin on the verge. Then, on the eve of Noel Airman's first Broadway opening, Lady Brett Ashley wins out over Shirley, in a Central Park South hotel room. This may well be the longest to-do over the loss of a girl's virginity since Richardson's Pamela. Says Wouk defensively: "Some people may get impatient and think, 'She's going to sleep with this guy, what's all the fuss?' But it's still a great suspense thing to a girl. If you don't think so, take...
...Davis Cup challenge round drew near (Aug. 26-28), the U.S. tennis team suffered what might be a crippling blow: 24-year-old Tony Trabert, French and Wimbledon champion, was out of action with a pulled shoulder muscle. Unless he recovers, his two erratic teammates, Vic Seixas and Hamilton Richardson, will have difficulty hanging on to the hard-won trophy. Both men were beaten in the Eastern Grass Court Championship tournament at South Orange...
...court settlement, Young agreed to pay Alleghany the $700,000, will also guarantee it against loss in Young's deal with Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson to buy 600,000 shares of New York Central stock with Alleghany funds...