Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woods near Saratoga Springs, Playwright Thornton Wilder sat composing a eulogy to the late Thomas Mann. As he wrote, a small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
...almost like the good old days again, when everybody but the poor was rich, when King George V sat respectably on his throne, and his dashing son the Prince of Wales (now Duke of Windsor) toppled off horses from Aldershot to Dockenfield. Mayfair was afire with the glitter of bright lights, seductive scents hung heavy on the air, and the stillness of spring nights was shattered by the popping of champagne corks. Despite repeated government warnings to tighten all belts, London last week was in the giddy midst of the most extravagant social season since 1938. "The British upper class...
...murder stood straight-haired, sloe-eyed Denise Labbe, 30, and her lover, Jacques Algarron, 26. Ever since their arrest more than a year ago, neighbors and newspaper readers had known the pair as "the Possessed," but cool, handsome Jacques and his pale paramour looked anything but demonic as they sat, clad in black, listening impassively to the charges. The daughter of a poor postman, orphaned at 13 and self-educated, Denise had been a capable, serious-minded government secretary. Jacques, an illegitimate child whose parents had married only as an afterthought, was a graduate of Saint-Cyr, an artillery lieutenant...
...Groningen, The Netherlands, High School Student Rinie Tjassens sat with his classmates to take the country's standardized final examination in French. By mistake, Tjassens got an English exam, which he completed and turned in. His teachers went into a panicky huddle because young Tjassens now knew all the questions in the English exam - not due anywhere else in The Netherlands until the next day - and could trade them to his fellow students for the questions to the French exam they had just finished. The pedagogic solution: Tjassens was "quarantined", then took the French exam while the other pupils...
Ford Star Jubilee (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Musical version of A Bell for Adano, with Barry Sullivan, Anna Maria Alberghetti...