Word: sydney
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...Sydney J. Freedberg '36, professor of Fine Arts, said some council members believe VES "would best serve people who have the talent and dedication that would make them want to take honors...
...careful not to marry ladies in very high positions, as husbands in such marriages can summarily be dismissed by their wives." Amin cabled his regrets to Snowdon in Australia, where the photographer kept busy last week with an exhibit of his photos in Sydney. Meg, meanwhile, dutifully returned to her official functions and took Son Viscount Linley to visit the destroyer H.M.S. Hampshire in London. The ship, which she and Snowdon launched in 1961, is about to be scrapped...
...concern for the children-and a certain residual affection between the parted pair-was apparent in Lord Snowdon's comment on the separation last week from Sydney, Australia, where he is opening a show of his own photographs. He told a press conference that he wanted "to pray for the understanding of our two children, to wish Princess Margaret every happiness for her future, and to express with utmost humility my love, admiration and respect I will always have for her sister, mother and indeed her entire family." After such a sad and stormy marriage, it seemed a gallant...
Ambler was the popular novelist of the left during the thirties, although two well-known movies made from this period, Journey Into Fear (with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles) and Mask of Dimitrios (with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet), weeded subversion out. But then Ambler changed. After 1940 he didn't write a book for eleven years. He was in charge of propaganda films for the British Army until 1946, and spent a few years writing screenplays (e.g., Monsarrat's The Cruel Sea). In 1951 a disillusioned Ambler, returned with Judgement on Deltchev, about a political trial in Eastern Europe...
After graduating first in her class from the University of Sydney, Conway applied for a job in the Australian Foreign Service but was turned down for looking "too feminine." She considered a career in modeling, thought better and headed to the U.S.?and Harvard, "where I was at last taken seriously as a scholar." After writing a doctoral dissertation on "Women Reformers and American Culture, 1870 to 1930," she became an assistant to fellow Historian John Conway, whom she married and followed to Toronto. There he taught at York University and she at the University of Toronto...