Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, James Moran hired twelve men, varying from cross-eyed to farsighted, issued them muskets with blank cartridges, marched them out to Bunker Hill, reconstructed the Revolutionary battle, to prove that Captain William Prescott could not have shouted: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!" Result : the far-sighted men opened fire at 75 feet, the normal-visioned at 50, the near-sighted never fired at all, were presumably "skewered on enemy bayonets.'" Explained Moran: "I'm doing this because I like to have...
...consists of six phonograph records* containing recordings of 30 English poems, recited by English Actress Edith Evans. A well-chosen anthology, it contains such favorite pieces as Shakespeare's sonnet ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought . . ."), Blake's The Tiger, Lewis Carroll's Father William, John Masefield's Cargoes. What lifted the hackles on troubled U. S. listeners' necks was not the voice of the poets but the dying-swan voice of Edith Evans...
...William L. Mulcaby...
...William L. Wood...
...William B. Parsons...