Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rumania, which, in the course of its current purge of "revisionists," recently executed eight citizens of Hungarian ancestry accused of "separatist plotting." But in Russia itself, Nikita Khrushchev, with a little more refinement, generally spares the lives of the men he purges, subjects them instead to a Muscovite version of the Chinese water torture...
...cadets rushed to get ready for an inspection, top academy officers were worrying over the kind of details that always seem to interrupt the textbook version of military precision. The dining room chairs (with under-seat cap racks) had not yet arrived; two colonels and two majors knocked their heads together over the problem of where the cadets would place their caps during supper (solution: on extra tables and under chairs). And the Roman Catholic chaplain was hunting for the culprit who installed a pingpong table in his temporary chapel. "It's organized confusion," moaned one light colonel...
...Should Beth die in the upcoming LB one-hour musical version of Little Women? "Absolutely not," said Composer-Lyricist Richard Adler. When Louisa May Alcott finished the last paragraph of her classic he said, Beth was still breathing. Her creator, Adler argued, killed Beth m the book's sequel, Little Women, Part II. Come October, Beth (played by Margaret O'Brien) will live...
Indiscreet. Gary Grant dispensing yachts and yacht-ta-ta to Ingrid Bergman, in a funny, freewheeling version of Broadway's Kind Sir (TIME, July...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye, in one of his funniest films, as a Polish refugee stranded in Paris while the Wehrmacht approached in 1940, based on Jacobowsky and the Colonel, S. N. Behrman's 1944 Broadway version of a play by Austria's Franz Werfel (TIME, Sept...