Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apparently assuming that summertime audiences are not anxious to strain their overheated energies in witnessing heavy, provocative drama, the local summer theatre group has been serving up a light diet of mysteries and comedies, spiced by the presence of some well-known personalities in its recent bill-of-fare. Its latest offering, fully in keeping with that policy, is Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," the semi-psychological thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short...
Like many a man with lesser burdens, Harry Truman needed to get away from it all. Physically, he was taking the strain well-his personal physician, Lieut. Colonel Wallace H. Graham, said: "At 62, the President has the body of a man of 40 and the reactions of a man 20 years younger." In 14 months, he had gained ten pounds, a deep tan and the resiliency of second youth. But mentally he needed a rest, and he wanted it without "traveling like a circus...
...respiratory disease which hit the Navy and the Army Air Forces in 1944 failed to respond to the sulfa drugs which had previously been effective against similar infections. Last week a group of Stanford bacteriologists traced the epidemic to a sturdy strain of streptococci which had "become more resistant by mutation...
...fight for the Democratic nomination from Washington's First Congressional District (Seattle), left-wing Representative Hugh De Lacey and rabble-rousing, opportunistic Howard Costigan were tearing an old friendship to shreds. When both appealed for help to the heirs of Franklin Roosevelt, even family ties snapped under the strain...
Harvard veterans seeking entertainment which will not place undue strain on their limited budgets have found an answer to their problem in the Esplanade Concerts given in the Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston. The summer series opened last Tuesday evening before a crowd of 20,000 which transformed the usually serene Storrow Embankment into something resembling the Hollywood Bowl. Back Bay rubbed elbows with Scollay Square under the hypnotic influence of symphonic music...