Word: room
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been apparent to friends for a long time. After she divorced him (because, as a friend says, "she found she didn't need a father, and wanted a husband"), she married Stage-TV Director Sidney Lumet, who was her own age, and resumed housekeeping in her ten-room duplex penthouse on Manhattan's fashionable Gracie Square. There, in the glow of dramatic opulence (red rugs, red chairs, white curtains, a pink passageway, a yellow door), she was transported to the heady world of upper Bohemianism in the company of the eliteniks of the theater. She painted (commendably), wrote...
...Stoky, doting father that he was, could not get enough of his children. The 1955 divorce settlement gave him liberal rights, and he took every advantage of them. He arranged his Fifth Avenue apartment for the boys, gave each his own room and bath (they slept in the same room at Gloria's), a large playroom, and bikes. He talked of nothing save his boys and his music ("And," says a friend, "he was a bore about both"). He meticulously arranged their diets (insisting on orange juice freshly squeezed at the table just before drinking, no earlier), evolved...
...Chorus, under the leadership of Harold C. Schmidt '32, Director of Choral Music and professor of Music at Stanford University, will have its organizational meeting tomorrow from 7 to 8 p.m. in Room 11, Sever Hall. Rehearsals will take only three hours a week in preparation for the annual choral concert to be given in Sanders Theatre on August 13. The Chorus may also apear on television, as in previous summers...
Since there is no room on the narrow Thames for all crews to compete for a trophy at the same time, winning at Henley is a process of elimination. The final events take place on Saturday...
...Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest and most adult dialogue ever to come across the screen. As an aging mistress, Simone Signoret gives a devastating performance that justifiably won the Cannes Festival's award for the "best performance by an actress." Named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...