Word: wold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway success, returned to Manhattan from a second stint in Hollywood. "I had a lovely time," said Williams. "It isn't such a bad place, really." His assignment: writing a screen play from his stage hit, The Glass Menagerie. His latest experience: "I worked with [Warner Producer] Jerry Wold. We get along perfectly. We were in complete agreement on every point . . . Well, we did have to compromise on an ending. They wanted what they call an upbeat ending. I didn't see how I could do it, but, of course, I realized that if I didn...
Individually, donations were: Winthrop 112, Lowell 80, Kirkland 64, Adams 50, Leverett 47, Dunster 41, Radcliffe 32, Eliot 30, Mower and Lionel 26, Apley 17, Wigglesworth 15, Hollis 13, Wold 13, Mathews 12, Holworthy 11, Grays 10, and Claverly four...
...Wold admitted that some of his information had come from Walter Trohan (TIME, Jan. 31), Washington bureau chief and topflight hatchetman of the Chicago Tribune. Under the Roosevelt barrage, Author Wold had retreated, according to Elliott, who quoted him as saying: "Much of the material in my book has been omitted, giving rise [in Look] to a completely false impression...
...Wold, said the Roosevelts, had never met F.D.R., nor had he consulted Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, the White House physician, who wrote Anna: "The article in Look magazine is so untruthful that comment is difficult . . . Dr. Wold has no basis for any of his statements...
Distorted or not, the Wold piece had snagged an extra 10,000 buyers for Look's Feb. 15 issue, and Look professed not to be worried. Editor Gardner Cowles said that Look had "checked the article thoroughly" before publication, "and we are going to stand...