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...Webster defines "fud" as: 1) the buttocks; also, tail of a hare, cony, etc.; 2) woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Hughy's Fudocracy | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...Underworld, based on Jacques Offenbach's score and with a new book by Ben Hecht (see Music) ; and a dramatization of André Gide's The Immoralist, starring Geraldine Page and directed by Herman Shumlin. Other French entries: The Strong Are Lonely, with Victor Francen and Margaret Webster; and a Louis Kronenberger adaptation of Jean Anouilh's bitter Colombe, a starring vehicle for talented Julie Harris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtain Going Up | 8/31/1953 | See Source »

...Judge Clyde I. Webster, 75, who held court from his sickbed, and Mercy Killer William R. Jones, 62, who sat at his side to be sentenced-wept with compassion for each other in Detroit one day last week. The judge's tears came as he considered the anguish which led Jones to electrocute his wife, Barbara, a sufferer from incurable diabetes, who had lost both legs and suffered agonizing pain. Jones wept as the judge explained that he could not condone the killing but could only "show you every consideration." "I want to thank you," said Jones, after getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: Compassion | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...recall her every intonation, her every gesture, her every bit of business . . . Maude Adams in The Little Minister! Bless me! I still can hear the music of her laughter as she danced in the moonlight [and] see the toss of her head in the firelight in Nanny Webster's cottage . . . Maude Adams in The Little Minister . . . 'What a time of years! What a time of years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Time of Years | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...years since his stage debut at Webster, little Harry Crosby, better known as Bing, has been converted into something like a public utility in the entertainment business. After 25 years of fame, Bing's voice, on records, still fills U.S. airwaves, and his name on a movie marquee is as big a draw, year in year out, as any name in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bathroom Baritone Inc. | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

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