Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boned, twelve and tenderhearted, Crescent Delahanty lives on a Southern California ranch, but spends her finest hours with King Arthur and Shelley. "The day dies, its burnished wrack burns in yon western sky," she tells herself as she watches a sunset. But Cress never writes this sort of thing in her notebooks ("The Poems of Crescent Delahanty, Volume III"); there she strives for something starker and more modern, e.g., "You do not have to wipe the noses of your dreams...
...civil rights: Smith v. Allwright, outlawing the Texas "white primary" and opening the way to effective Negro voting throughout the South; Morgan v. Virginia, striking down state-imposed segregation in interstate transportation; Sweatt v. Painter, compelling the University of Texas to admit a Negro to its law school; Shelley v. Kraemer, holding unenforceable, under the 14th Amendment, a racial housing covenant. Marshall's Supreme Court record: won 13, lost...
ARMY MEDICAL SERGEANT DAVID B. BLEAK, 21, of Shelley, Idaho: Entered a trench, killed two enemy soldiers with his bare hands and a third with his trench knife, shielded another U.N. soldier from a grenade blast, and evacuated a wounded companion. "As he moved down the hill with his heavy burden, he was attacked by two enemy soldiers with fixed bayonets ... he grabbed them and smashed their heads together...
Cinemactress Shelley Winters, whose rowboat scene in A Place in the Sun helped make her an Oscar candidate two years ago, ran through the scene once again during her nightclub debut in San Diego. Wearing a "figure-clutching," ivory brocade dress, Shelley also warbled a few songs (Find Me a Primitive Man) well enough to win a cheer ("Socko") from Variety. But she was so sure she had done poorly after the first show that she burst into tears backstage. "I went out on the nightclub floor," she said, "and saw all those faces and asked myself, 'What...
Grossinger's also polished up the early careers of Actress Shelley Winters, Comedienne Betty Garrett, Film Producer Dore Schary (who was once editor of the weekly Grossinger News) and Metropolitan Opera Baritone Robert Merrill...