Word: swains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Running. In London, Accountant Francis George Swain, 46, got a two-year prison stretch for embezzling about $8,400 in animal-welfare funds from the Blue Cross-Our Dumb Friends League, got no leniency for having shot the wad betting on such dumb friends as greyhounds and race horses...
...some 5,000 woe-laden readers of the Chicago Sun-Times's Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers-who is syndicated in 342 other papers-apply to her for solace and advice. They usually get it, sometimes right between the eyes: to the miss who asked how to treat her swain's offer to "get married or something," Ann snapped: "You should get married-or nothing." Last August one of Columnist Landers' greatest admirers, Sun-Times Executive Editor Larry Fanning ("This girl has something beyond mere shrewdness"), detached her for a venture into straight reporting. Assignment: Moscow...
EUGENE FISHER WALTER B. SWAIN JR. Leland, Miss...
...play is still pretty funny-the tale of a misogynist farmer who keeps trying to get rid of a rich Athenian lad in love with his daughter. (Solution: the farmer falls down his well, is rescued with the help of the swain, grudgingly hands over his daughter.) Funniest part is the traffic of devout Athenians to the temple of Pan near the farmer's shack; their animal "sacrifices" always turn out to be raucous sheep barbecues with only the bones left for Pan. Horizon's translator (and chief editorial adviser) is Glasgow-born Gilbert Highet, the lively author...
...less can be said for John Cazale and Mary Weed, who played the lovers George Gibbs and Emily Webb. Mr. Cazale's hair is somewhat thinner than one would expect in a sixteen-year-old, and at times he mumbled more like a troubled suburbanite than a New Hampshire swain. Certainly nothing could be said against Miss Weed's interpretation of Emily, which became truly moving in the final scene of the play. But she looked "dressed down" to meet the sixteen-year-old requirement, and was simply not the willowy schoolgirl expected...