Word: sage
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jaffe's role as the cool and precise master-mind of a jewel robbery is well-conceived. Jaffe is not shallow; he learns that an old man must not think about young girls, and seems quite willing to accept this sage ethic. Louis Calhern's part involves an early and unlikely double-cross from which, as far as the story goes, he never recovers. But he, too, sees his errors, commits suicide, and the Witches are all happy again. playing at being Calhern's moll, a young starlet named Marilyn Monroe in her first performance reaches the peak...
Glaucon: Four, O reverend sage...
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of the birth of Dean Briggs. To commemorate the occasion, Antonios P. Savides, retired professor of Psychology and Education at Russell Sage College, has made available the text of a 1934 interview with Dean Briggs. Their conversation reads in part, as follows...
Every vermouth producer has his own secret formula to provide a slightly different taste for devotees. In Manhattan, President Tribuno personally blends each batch of 30 to 40 exotic herbs-blessed thistle, angelica, hyssop, elder flowers. Roman camomile, clary sage, sweet marjoram, etc.-into the vermouth's white-wine base. A jolt of 180-186-proof brandy (90-93% alcohol), fortifies the wine. The vermouth ages for months before it is blended with other vermouth and filtered. As for Vermouthman Tribuno, his formula is a conservative martini, four parts gin to one part vermouth. Says he: "I could...
Among the organizations they have approached is the Russell Sage foundation of New York, which recently made a grant to J. Lawrence Dohan '55, founder of the P.B.H. Mental Hospital program, for projected mental health study. The Committee is also soliciting the 51 million dollar Commonwealth Fund and the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation...