Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tempest in a Pot. As mayor, Walker soon reduced his onerous new job to an easygoing system. "Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those...
...that all TV sets - except Zenith's - were in danger of becoming obsolete (TIME, March 21). Last week, the wind was dying and the dust settling. In a Baltimore speech, FCC Chairman Wayne Coy announced: "I think the question of obsolescence of television receivers is something of a tempest in a teapot . . ." No matter what decision FCC eventually makes about using Ultra High Frequency bands, Coy said, the present twelve channels will continue to be used. Furthermore, until FCC makes its decision, "the radio manufacturing industry cannot know, with any degree of certainty, what kind of receivers to make...
Rehearsals begin tonight for the Harvard Theater Workshop's final production, Shakespeare's "The Tempest," director Albert Marre 1G said yesterday. The cast will include Robert Fletcher '50 as Prospero, Thayer David as Caliban, Jan Farrand as Ariel, and Naomi Raphaelson '50 as Miranda...
Castings, which were completed last night, are only temporary, Marre emphasized. Miss Raphaelson, who beat out four professional actresses for her part, still has plenty of work ahead, he said, in order to play Miranda when "The Tempest" opens May 4 in Brattle Hall...
...Workshop unanimously voted to present "The Tempest" at a general meeting held on Friday. Webster's "The White Devil" and Shakespeare's "Measure For Measure" were the other serious contenders for production...