Word: sidelong
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Playwright Bagnold's sidelong, elegantly savage play fortunately gets the production it altogether requires. Gladys Cooper as the booming, inwardly empty dowager and Siobhan McKenna as the quiet, inwardly burning companion create a brilliant contrast and head a talented cast. Though doing justice to the play's darker moments, the cast keeps it throughout an engrossing entertainment...
...This sidelong look at the new U.S. defense policy was no sudden thought on the part of Matt Ridgway. When the new military-forces paper was signed last December, both Ridgway and Admiral Robert B. Carney, Navy Chief of Staff, penned their signatures with reservations. They signed because President Eisenhower had said that he did not want split papers coming from the Joint Chiefs. Then both called at the White House to register their personal objection to the emphasis on air power. After that, the brass and the press agents in both the Army and the Navy...
Last week an airline company came to Stan's rescue. With an air of misty-eyed sentiment and only a sidelong glance for the attendant publicity, Alaska Airlines, Inc. announced that it would be glad to fly Stan's pole and all Santa Claus letters on hand to the North Pole some time in November. Stan was jubilant. "There'll be a pole at the North Pole if it's the last thing I do," said Stan...
...home. He had announced in Cherbourg that the Duchess of Windsor had "received several offers" of jobs. When they arrived in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess said to reporters who interviewed them: "I'm afraid that's just a rumor." Then, with a sidelong glance at the Duke: "I have quite a full-time job now." One of the Duke's first jobs on U.S. soil: escorting his Duchess to a New Year's Eve party at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, where the Windsors bumped into another exiled royal couple, King Peter and Queen...
...Rock, Ark. last week for their 59th annual reunion, chortled in high glee over a new explanation for the surrender at Appomattox. The story: that General Robert E. Lee handed his sword and hat to General U.S. Grant because he took him to be the doorman. Then, with a sidelong glance at the last survivors of the G.A.R., who had held their last encampment four weeks ago, they decided to keep meeting each year "as long as there are two of us able to meet...