Word: wheelchairs
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...were young or foreign ones like Julie Andrews, Andy Griffith, Earle Hyman, Siobhan McKenna. It was the season when, thanks to Comedienne Nancy Walker, Noel Coward's generation-old Fallen Angels was restored to life without having previously ever lived, when Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair, and when Susan Strasberg, in the title role of Anne Frank, was raised to stardom...
...months of speculation, Democrat Charles F. Brannan, Secretary of Agriculture under Harry Truman, and now general counsel of the National Farmers Union, announced in Denver last week that he will seek the U.S. Senate seat held for the past 14 years by Colorado Republican Eugene Millikin. Confined to a wheelchair by arthritis and complications. Millikin, 65, has announced that he will run again. But the G.O.P., facing hard opposition from Brannan, is expected to urge Senator Millikin to withdraw in favor of a candidate who could conduct a more vigorous campaign. A leading choice of the politicos, if Gene Millikin...
...Franklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court). Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush said he hoped that he might some day command the kind of respect that prompted George's wife always to call him "Mr. George." Rolled into the Senate chamber in a wheelchair, Colorado's ailing Republican Senator Eugene Millikin, who is facing a re-election battle this year, wept as he paid his brief, barely audible tribute to his colleague. Tennessee's clear-headed Democratic Senator Albert Gore produced the day's best description of Walter George: "A Senator...
...Crimson will not quite be at full strength for the match, as scrum half Charles Levine sits out the game in a wheelchair and with a displaced cartilage, and prop forward Peter Curry nurses a pulled muscle...
...Historian Walker brings the wealth of knowledge he first began storing up when, at 13, an attack of infantile paralysis set him haunting the galleries of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum in a wheelchair. Convinced that he wanted to become a museum man, Walker went to Harvard ('30), breezed through the Fogg Museum training course summa cum laude, found time on the side to found (with Balletomane Lincoln Kirstein and Esthete Edward M. M. Warburg) the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art (profaned by other Harvard-men as the Society for Contemptuous Art) and contribute to Kirstein's then...