Word: williams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintain that it "has so suffered from the competition of Mr. Hunt's company [William Morris Hunt's is executive producer of the C.D.F.]...that it is doubtful that it can continue." When Mr. Durgin asked Mrs. Alison Ridley Evans, Group 20's manager, she said she thought her business had suffered "to some extent," but added equivocally, "It is hard to estimate how much." Yet Group 20's fine current production of Shaw's Man and Superman has evidently done excellent business since it has had to be held over an extra week...
...problem; but he has a noble manner, and rises to great heights in the moving scene in which he is informed of the slaughter of his family. Duncan is a weak old king, but not so weak as Pat Malone makes him. Barry Macollum is a deeply affecting Physician. William Myers' Lennox needs to smooth out his jerkv delivery...
Died. Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy, 84, F.D.R.'s wartime personal chief of staff who rose through 40 years in naval rank to Chief of Naval Operations (1937-39), went to work after retirement as Ambassador to Vichy-France; of a stroke; in Washington. Shaggy-browed, coolly logical Bill Leahy proved his diplomacy by gaining the confidence of old Marshal Petain, Nazi-approved boss of conquered France, and helping to neutralize France. Recalled to the U.S. in 1942, Old Sea Dog Leahy stayed close to F.D.R.. advised him without unduly influencing him (he took exception to some...
...arresting sights of Minneapolis has been burly Professor Athelstan F. (for Frederick) Spilhaus, 47, dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology, tossing his huge head at cocktail parties and spouting fantastic scientific ideas faster than water flows over Minnehaha Falls. Last year Spilhaus' friend, William Steven, executive editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, hit on the idea of harnessing this awesome flow by getting the learned professor to do a scientific comic strip. As a result, a Spilhaus-scripted strip, Our New Age, now appears weekly in 102 U.S. and 19 foreign newspapers...
...WILLIAM FAULKNER (MGM) reads selections from his novels-The Sound and the Fury, Light in August-in a voice as dry and fragile as a wisteria pod. The interest here is not in the pitch of line or phrase but in the incantatory plod of the Faulknerian periods, straddling page after page in the exhortation of meanings more felt than heard...