Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Central stock, biggest single block outstanding, from Cyrus S. Eaton's Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (at a profit of $2,400,000 to the C. & O.). The friendly buyers were Clinton W. Murchison, 58, of Dallas, whom Texans proudly describe as "really a wheeler-dealer," and Sid W. Richardson, 62, of Fort Worth, often called the richest man in oil reserves...
...buildings seem a procession of contrasts. Though the seven collegiate houses (i.e., the upperclassmen's living quarters) are uniformly Georgian, rising into golden spires out of the clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to Bui-finch, to H. H. Richardson, to Walter Gropius. The unofficial part of the Yard-the shops and stores that rim it-are a jumble all their own. Bookshops and soda fountains jockey for position; haircuts, haberdashery and history are all for sale. There is a pharmacy that once doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson...
...family of a widowed vicar (Ralph Richardson) comes home for Christmas. As the clergyman's children deck the halls with boughs of "that darn holly." prickly problems also strew the scene. One daughter (Celia Johnson), who feels it her duty to take care of father, really wants to get married and go to South America with her man (John Gregson). The other daughter (Margaret Leighton), though weary unto drink of her empty London life, refuses to come home and take care of father. She has had a child out of wedlock, and cannot face the "perpetual pretense" of living...
...production of The Catbird Seat. Last week TV served up two hour-long helpings of Thurber. The Robert Montgomery Presents adaptation of The Greatest Man in the World was almost a complete failure, but on the Motorola TV Hour (alt. Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC), Director Donald Richardson struck pure gold in his version of Thurber's fairy story, The Thirteen Clocks, set to music by Mark Bucci...
...Donald Richardson's direction of this fragile nonsense was both light and steady. The air of intelligent good humor that pervaded the piece most likely resulted from Richardson's long association with Paul Tripp in the production of Mr. I. Magination, the entertaining children's show that ran for a too short three years on CBS-TV. The Thirteen Clocks is al most certain to be repeated in years to come and should take its place with Amahl and the Night Visitors as a perennial holiday TV favorite. This week Thurber fans may get another treat...