Word: webster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge Webster Thayer, who presided over the famous murder trial, was attacked by Schlesinger for having refused a retrial for the men when new evidence appeared. "Thayer's court-room innuendoes," he also claimed, "were the chief factor in persuading the jury to condemn...
...Lulu" is a complete success, and would be so even without the delightful gymnastics which Amyn Khan adds. Maureen Needham's choreography generally is satisfactory and sometimes, as in the "Abdication Waltz," eminently successful. The costuming, handled by Theoni Aldredge, is professional and more. The scenery, the province of Webster Lithgow, is economical and very good...
...Webster Lithgow, whose arrangement of the bare stage for Six Characters was unobtrusively correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
...campus success as a TV answer man, as its new president. Big (6 ft. 3 in., 197 Ibs.), mild, mustached Philosophy Teacher Gross joined the 14,000-student university in 1946, has served as provost, vice president and acting president since the school's former head, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, resigned last August...
...Janet Webster '60, of Barnard Hall and Wakefield, was elected president of the Radcliffe Student Government Association, it was announced yesterday...