Word: windom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the nation's biggest bank, Bank of America's S. (for Seth) Clark Beise-Windom High School, Windom, Minn...
York; Leon W. Hoyer of Kirkland House and Windom, Minnesota; John R. Kramer of Lowell House and New York City; Ira M. Lapidus of Adams House and Brooklyn, New York; Kenneth Laurence of Winthrop House and Portland, Maine; Keith M. Lindgren of Winthrop House and Minneapolis, Minnesota...
...sweeps Edna Best, wearing a stomacher, a red wig and a putty nose. Though a skilled actress, she is miscast and overplays the vulgarity of her role as she declaims fake-heroic verses, shouts uncomfortably ribald asides, and trails behind her a retinue of hairdressers, manicurists and poets. William Windom and Harry Bannister are effective as youthful and aged incarnations of women-chasers. Superbly costumed by Motley, Colombe is played against Boris Aronson's fine settings-a gauzy, grey-and-golden evocation of the Paris of yesteryear. The language of the Kronenberger adaptation has a French clarity as well...
...WINDOM'S WAY (286 pp.) - James Ramsey Ullman-Lippincott...
Window's Way, by James Ramsey Ullman, preaches humanity. The hero, Dr. Windom, is a dedicated medical missionary in a remote corner of Southeast Asia. Inevitably, he gets caught up in a struggle between the wicked reactionary government and the ruthless Communist guerrillas. Windom's problem is what to do when the government troops retreat. Shall he retreat with them, or stay on, in Red territory, and do what he can for the peasants? His wife deserts him, and friends misunderstand him, but Dr. Windom, caring more for people than for isms, decides to stick...