Word: ridley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintain that it "has so suffered from the competition of Mr. Hunt's company [William Morris Hunt's is executive producer of the C.D.F.]...that it is doubtful that it can continue." When Mr. Durgin asked Mrs. Alison Ridley Evans, Group 20's manager, she said she thought her business had suffered "to some extent," but added equivocally, "It is hard to estimate how much." Yet Group 20's fine current production of Shaw's Man and Superman has evidently done excellent business since it has had to be held over an extra week...
...theatrical "coup" of obtaining the rights to Shaw's Pygmalion, but incorrectly assigns the credit for so doing to Mr. Jerome Kilty. Mr. Kilty, as local audiences well know, is an extremely talented and valuable member of our company, but it was Group 20's Managing-Director, Miss Alison Ridley, who was entirely responsible for obtaining the rights to the play, after six months of work on this point. As Managing-Directors so rarely receive the limelight which is the happier lot of their actors, I have taken it upon myself to see that recognition for this theatrical coup...
...m.p.h. and 90,000 ft., it was not I, but Major Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, my friend of long standing, who attained this speed (and incidentally, nearly gave his life), while accomplishing always hazardous high-speed research during 1953. Following his flights, and with the assistance of Colonel Jack Ridley, the NACA, and many others, it then became my privilege to be the first man to attain 90,000 ft. as the culmination of 13 unpredictable flights...
When British Surgeon Harold Ridley took the daring step of implanting a tiny plastic lens inside the eye of a patient operated on for a cataract (TIME...
...German ophthalmologist, Er-langen's Professor Eugen Schreck, reports a danger-free adaptation of the Ridley technique. Instead of following nature closely, as did Ridley, in putting the plastic lens behind the iris, in the position of the removed natural lens, Surgeon Schreck puts his lens in front of the iris...