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...intimately involved in shaping the future, Anderson has an old-fashioned aura about him. He wears sober blue suits and a vest. He shuns Washington social life, preferring to spend his time with his family (Wife Ollie Mae, two sons, 23 and 19). He still treasures and quotes the faded poets, including Poe, Kipling and Edwin (The Man with the Hoe) Markham, whom he loved in his boyhood. In an age when public men tend to hedge their affirmations, he speaks out forthrightly for such notions as "the integrity of the dollar" and the value of individuality. A devout, Bible...
...Morrison in Variety spoke of "this exalted drama," John Chapman of the Daily News thought it "a magnificent production of a truly splendid play," Richard Watts of the Post called it "a fine drama" with "stunning performances" and Walter Kerr of the Herald Tribune felt he stood before "a sober and handsome monument" that was "enormously impressive" and, of course, "sheer theatre." Exclaimed John Mason Brown, Critic Emeritus of the Saturday Review (and Harvard, '23): "Never such greatness in the theatre--not since Mourning Becomes Electra, Green Pastures, or Our Town...
Married. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, World War II ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); and TV Actress Dolores ("Dee") Tatum, 33; he for the third time ("first time I've been married sober"), she for the second; in Denver...
...responded: "Success to abstinence!" Then Behan lumbered off to the theater to catch a performance ..of his London hit, The Hostage. At play's end, to cries of "Author!" he took the stage, smiled with clear-eyed modesty, drew a big hand by saying: "I'm absolutely sober...
Fairly interesting while chronicling its love affair, Chéri afterward does little realistically with fractured lives, little nostalgically with fragrant memories. There is no more wit to its frivolous scenes than depth to its sober ones. The audience can only watch a lost young man and a woman who gets older and older. At whatever age, Kim Stanley proves a gifted actress, but she seems about as Gallic as cornflakes and as demimondaine as Betsy Ross. She is forever fighting a role as well as a script...