Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Penn halfback Ed Shaw punted to Ronnie Brandquist deep in Middie territory with only 1:30 left in the first half, Quaker end John Seksinsky smashed into Brandquist and a blocker so hard that he caused the Navy back to fumble. Seconds later, halfback Fred Doelling scored, and Shaw's kick gave Penn a 19-8 margin...
...admirer and fan." Night after night crowds stormed the box office of West Berlin's Renaissance Theater without success: the four-week limited engagement of Jerome Kilty's Dear Liar had been sold out overnight. Based on the series of "wicked, wicked letters" that George Bernard Shaw exchanged over the years with Actress Stella (Mrs. Patrick) Campbell, the play crackled with the thrust and parry of Shavian wit neatly done in German. But for once G.B.S. himself was being upstaged by an even more powerful drawing card: famed Viennese Actress Elisabeth Bergner, 59, emerging from semiretirement to score...
More recitation than straight drama, Dear Liar (first presented last spring in a U.S. tour by Katharine Cornell and Brian Aherne-TIME, April 27*) provides Actress Bergner with the kind of virtuoso acting opportunities she needs. With top-notch support from German Actor Otto Hasse as Shaw, Bergner limns the famous affair-by-letter, beginning in 1912, when Actress Campbell, at the height of her fame and beauty, was writing to her "Joey the Clown" about appearing in his Pygmalion, through the declining days in Hollywood (where Stella was like "some sinking frigate firing broadside after broadside at anyone...
Kopit is the author of The Questioning of Nick, The Runway of Life, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and Aubade, all presented at Harvard in recent years. He is currently on a Shaw Travelling Fellowship in Europe...
...salvaged a win in the fifth game, on Shaw's 9-hit shutout that involved some brilliant masterminding in the eighth, when Lopez and Alston battled for 20 minutes changing pitchers and pinch-hitters...