Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laugh is the story of Richard Hubert Ward, a rascal who became an actor "because there was almost nothing else for him to do." At 14, Hubie had swiped his uncle's car and run down an old woman. Expelled from various prep schools for his double-gaited sexual activities, he muscled his way into summer stock by threatening to expose the director as a homosexual, then slithered off to Hollywood...
...second Ronnie Colman." Hubie did. He went so straight that his wife took to adultery out of boredom. And then there was a divorce, and a couple more marriages-all crammed onto the last two pages as O'Hara's chronicle dribbles to a stop. Hubie Ward was the frankest of phonies, but the moral is, or so the author says, that "people know when you are trying to be something you are not." In his short stories, O'Hara can knock chips off the old Hollywood chopping block with his eyes shut...
Persons who must enter the Yard should carry a short stick or umbrella with them to ward off lunging squirrels. "Even a rabid squirrel can be routed by a sharp blow on the nose," Chernoff said...
...Drama: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; fiction: Edwin O'Connor's The Edge of Sadness; nonfiction: Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960; history: Lawrence Gibson's The Triumphant Empire; verse: Alan Dugan; music: Robert Ward's opera, The Crucible; public service by a newspaper: Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan...
...girls and boys, apparently used to embellish the temple. Who the boys may have been in real life remains a mystery. But about the girls more is known. They bore the title "Little Bears," for one of their duties was to perform a ritual dance dressed as bears to ward off a plague that according to legend was threatened by Artemis after her holy bear was killed by some Athenian children...