Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew, checking the X-15's behavior constantly with the control tower, the B-52 and his chase pilots (one of whom, Air Force Major Robert White, will probably be selected to make the first X-15 test flight in space). When he leveled off at 50,000 ft., Pilot Crossfield called...
Direct Methods. At the hub of the argument is Stanford's new dean of the School of Medicine, Pediatrician Robert Alway, 54, a hard-driving administrator whose passionate interest is to improve his school. He is also a man of tough, direct methods. When he was chosen as dean last year, med-school department heads submitted their resignations as a matter of course. Customarily, the new dean refuses. Not Alway...
...there is no escape." In stripping Blanche DuBois of her nobility and routing out all traces of pity for her, Rabb distorted the play out of all proportion. As Blanche, Cavada Humphrey fought a losing battle, and was the only cast member even to attempt mastering a Southern accent. Robert Blackburn's Stanley was not animalistic enough, but Chase Crosley made him a sweet wife. The best part of the production was the set, with its half dozen gaudy, flashing neon signs...
...Playhouse hit its peak with an excellent production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, a powerful and almost successful attempt at a new kind of poetic realism in the field of tragedy. Robert J. Lurtsema brought first-rate dynamism and nobility to the leading role of Eddie Carbone. Dana Bate was fine as his older cousin Marco. And Dean Gitter '56 played the lawyer Alfieri with intelligence...
...tycoon Larrabee, Bogart has the appropriate earthiness that was last seen in Robert Ryan's portrayal of Gatsby. He is very good in the role. (Casablanca addicts will probably get a kick out of seeing Bogie sailing with his girl on the Sound and humming Boola-Boola...