Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Gabriel Pascal, 60, cinemadapter of the plays of George Bernard Shaw; after long illness; in Manhattan. Penniless in 1935 when he crumbled Shaw's notorious resistance to movie versions, stormy...
...cozy little resort spot called Zephyr Cove on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, sultry Cinemactress Ava Gardner, 31, settled down for six weeks while awaiting a divorce from Husband No. 3, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank Sinatra (No.1: Cinemugger Mickey Rooney; No. 2: Bandleader Artie Shaw). Though well on her way to challenging the marriage records of such Hollywood veterans as Arline Judge (six husbands) and Hedy Lamarr (only five), Ava seemed momentarily weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which...
Eleven members of the senior class received their letters: Pickard, Prior, T. H, Alcock, John Parkinson, B. H. Dorman, F. A. Clark, David Shaw, S. C. Burns, George Crawford, French, and Guarnaccia...
...Harry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, established to give seniors with show promise of success of professional or business careers an opportunity to supplement their formal education with a year of travel in Europe, was awarded this year to David B. Lewin '54 of New York City and Lowell House. Lewin holds the Wister Prize for highest excellence in mathematics, and managed the Lowell House Opera this year...
...paved, perhaps improbably, with theater reviews. But he succeeded magnificently. Now 27, and with a full three years of life left, he has already written three books (on the theater and its personalities), moved from Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (which called him "the greatest theater critic since Shaw") to the tabloid Daily Sketch (which billed him as "the liveliest writer of the day"). In August, Tynan becomes drama critic for the Sunday Observer (circ. 475,609), roughly the equivalent of the New York Times job now held by Brooks Atkinson...