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Planned renting of the Boston arterial highway through Chinatown and the garment industry area may cost be city $400 million and one-fifth of all the manufacturing jobs in Boston, Seymour E. Harris '20, Professor of Economic, told a television audience Friday night...
...Authorized a committee, headed by Manhattan Lawyer Whitney North Seymour, to investigate "congressional investigations and their impact on U.S. life," and chosen the same topic as the 1954 subject of the $2,500 Ross essay prize...
...done. He laid out an ambitious program, including seven volumes for ancient art, four more for the Far East, seven for Britain, six for Italy, and six for the Americas, Spain, Germany and Holland. To write them, he picked such experts as Charles Seymour Jr. from Yale, Paul Frankl from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and John Pope-Hennessy from Britain's Victoria & Albert Museum. Last week the first two volumes of the new history were on sale in Britain (the U.S. edition comes out in mid-June), and they were all Penguin had promised...
According to the movie, the great love in Elizabeth's life was Thomas, Lord Seymour, lord high admiral of England. (According to some history books, Tom was an unprincipled wolf who tried to seduce the princess in order to maneuver his way toward the throne.) But there were complications: Seymour was already married-to Catherine Parr, widow of Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII. The movie makes further complications by picturing Ned Seymour, the Protector Somerset, as a villain plotting to rule England by force and terror instead of by the will of the people...
...rather romanticized view of history, Young Bess is a better than average historical movie. It has rich Tudor sets and costumes, some literate dialogue and an excellent cast. As young Bess, Jean Simmons gives a spirited performance that has both charm and imperiousness. Stewart Granger makes a dashing Tom Seymour, Guy Rolfe a convincingly evil villain, and Deborah Kerr a beautiful Catherine Parr. In the role of gross, big-bellied Henry VIII, Charles Laughton is again cast in the part that won him a 1933 Academy Award in The Private Life of Henry VIII. He seems to have a fine...