Word: wald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frederick L. Holborn '49, Donald B. Louria '49, John G. Lowe, Jr. '49, John W. Mathews '50, Richard F. McGrath '49, Stedman B. Noble '49, Lawrence F. O'Donnell '49, George Putnam, Jr. '49, Norman S. Rice '49, Robert W. Richardson '49, Evan H. Turner '49, Stanley H. Wald '47, George E. Weiner '46, John D. Young...
Meanwhile the Union Committee is sponsoring a series of talks by professors in the various fields, beginnings with Biology and Chemistry, the lures of which were enumerated lasted night by Professors George Wald, E.B. Wilson and J.T. Edsall...
Fearful of overstocking the market with the crusty growls and efficient gunplay of Humphrey Bogart, Warner Brothers has forsaken thrillers for the more artistic character study. Producer Jerry Wald would more happily have retained the perennial favorite, for "Dark Passage" comes to the screen as a castrated hybrid with neither excitement nor perceptible depth. Brilliant in spots, Director Delmer Daves weaves a tenuous, confusing story that becomes bearable only through the most strenuous efforts of an excellent supporting cast...
...phone begins trilling almost immediately. It is Joan Crawford, it is Orson Welles, it is Jerry Wald, it is Doris Day, it is Y. Frank Freeman (a Paramount vice president), it is Hedda's great friend Bing Crosby, it is every story "planter" in town. Hedda talks rapidly and constantly, hammering and wheedling angles out of reluctant stars, practically Claghorning the pressagents off the wire. At 11 she calls her secretary, Treva Davidson, and begins to dictate. It takes her about an hour and a half to do 800 words. Sometimes she does two or three columns...
Lastly, "the humanitarian goal of (the Zionist) organization" has not, as Wald claims, "been trampled underfoot in the headlong pursuit of a political state." Palestine has become the only hope for the more existence of millions of Jews, not to mention things like the dignity...