Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level high with the James Barrie play, Dear Brutus, especially selected by Helen Hayes to celebrate her 50 years in the theater. In the 1918 opening of the play, Actress Hayes had played Margaret, the child who "might-have-been," opposite William Gillette. On TV she was the world-sick Mrs. Dearth who gets a chance to relive her life and does even worse than before. Helen Hayes played with authority and was well-supported by Franchot Tone, Martyn Green and Lori March. But teen-ager Susan Strasberg-in Helen's old role of Margaret-nearly stole the show...
...foreign governments, changing our government every four years, but always something happens that is untoward when a government is changed at other times. It is a rather startling thing. They tell me that [there was] even some disturbance in the stock market at the time I got sick...
...last week's sick list: Colorado's brainy Republican Senator Eugene D. Millikm, 64, ailing with a "digestive upset" in the capital; roly-poly Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, 73, bedded in Honolulu after suffering slight injuries when he fell in his bedroom in the dark...
...time, the massacres of 1889 are branded vividly on his mind: "Each morning on my way to school I had to pass near a tree where the Turks used to hang Cretan patriots. The first time I saw a corpse dangling from the tree I was almost sick with fright. He was half nude, his greenish tongue stuck out from an open mouth and he smelled very bad. As I tried to turn away, father took me by the hand and ordered me to 'keep my eyes open.' Father forced me to approach the dead...
...enough fundamental decency in him to be shocked by the human derelicts who do most of the work of the circus. Here is a collection of winos as far removed from John Steinbeck's amiable guzzlers as Skid Row is from café society, and much more believable. Sick, filthy and brutal, they see in the circus a last chance to earn the price of a bottle. White or black, they are driven by a tough core of boss men who see that the circus gets set up, that the animals are fed, that the whole complicated, split-second...