Word: stewart
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...obvious situations. In the first of two acts, Miss Chase sets up her story with the care of someone balancing billiard balls on the edge of pockets. Then she taps each in; there is never doubt about which ball is going into which pocket. Buford Weldy, played by Johnny Stewart, is one of the destructive type. Immediately, it is made clear that Weldy's parents are divorced, his mother holds him on a gold plated leash, and that he has a reputation for jumping any girl he meets. For these reasons Weldy hangs around with a group of suburban Amboy...
...play between Weldy and the gang. Its leader is perhaps the most sympathetic character, played by Jack Kerr who is a frequent Brattle Theatre performer. More than any of the others, Kerr is able to transmit the fights between maturity and boyishness which are typical of adolescents. Stewart seems too much like a morose Henry Aldrich. And in the same way, his mother, Irene Hervey, never become a real individual; she is always the doting and misguided parent. Beyerly Lawrence, however, does quite well in the confusing part of the mother's friend; it is a fuzzy hole because...
...Charles Stewart Mott, three-time (1912, 1913, 1918) mayor of Flint, Mich., is a bushy-browed, vigorous oldster of 77 who takes a mighty delight in bridge, dancing and thoroughbreds, and in managing his personal fortune, which is one of the biggest (an estimated $100 million) in the state. Over the past 17 years, he has also come to mean a lot more to the citizens of Flint (pop. 163,000). Through his Mott Foundation he has brought supervised recreation to thousands of schoolchildren. He has set their parents to studying hundreds of different courses in adult night classes...
Seventeen members of last year's first year class have accepted election to the Legal Aid Bureau. They are Harris Aron, Richard J. Barnet, Burton Bromson, William J. Chadwick, H. Stewart Dunn, Jr., Laurence S. Fordham, B. Harrison Frankel, Donald F. French, Lawrence R. Fullem, James T. Harris, Herbert D. Katz, Jonathan W. Lubell, Ramon L. Posel, Leo Silverstein, Richard W. Southgate, Julian L. Weber, George P. Zisdenstein...
Three of the men of '36 have become publishers or editors of big newspapers (William Block of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, William K. Blethen of the Seattle Times, Whitelaw Reid of the New York Herald Tribune). Two are columnists (Stewart Alsop and John Crosby), and one (Richard N. Harris) invented the Toni. "We have a man who is coming to be recognized as the foremost ornithologist of our country [Sidney Dillon Ripley II] . . . We have a famous Fifth Avenue florist [Max Schling Jr.], the entrepreneur of a famous commercial language school [Charles F. Berlitz...