Word: wee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Constance Collier, 77, versatile dramatic actress, cinemactress (Kitty, Wee Willie Winkie), playwright (coauthor: The Rat, Down Hill), producer (Camille, Happy Families), author (Harlequinade) and dramatic coach (pupils: Katharine Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Winters); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...biting off Finnegans Wake, the Poets' Theatre fortunately discovered that its eyes wee not bigger than its stomach. In fact, this choice offering of rich Joycean language should satisfy the most demanding of theatrical gourmets...
Biographies in Sound (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Tribute to Leo Durocher, with Laraine Day, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Willie Mays, Branch Rickey...
...Wee Prayer-Ism: The shocking heresy that, in moments of acute stress and danger, one wee prayer is permissible. This may be attributed, later, to behaviouristic reflex responses...
...those were the old days. This semester Lester still passed the night and wee hours grinding and took the usual nap before breakfast. But he slept right through an eight o'clock hour exam. For this is the day of the eight o'clock agony. Lester was not as fortunate as his instructor who remained blissfully in bed all morning, nor as fortunate as the boy next door who staggered into Memorial Hall ten minutes late with a pajama top on his back and hatred in his heart. He was certainly more rested, however, than the lad who arrived...