Word: worker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the game to introduce themselves to the kid with the whiplash passing arm. By the end of this year, there was hardly a football coach in the South who had not cast covetous eyes on Perry Lee ("The Gun") Dunn, 18-year-old son of a Natchez factory worker. For Perry Lee is a quarterback with the roughhewn build of a tackle (6 ft. 1½ in., 207 Ibs.). As a senior he has averaged a startling 260.9 yds. a game, running for 20 touchdowns and passing for 14 more...
...role for which she was preparing. Already a part of her was onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...
...behind the footlights, Anne Bancroft is always the serious, controlled artist, whose features can change from tenderness to humor to ferocity to sultriness with astonishing ease and conviction. Says her sometime acting coach, Herbert Berghof: "She is like a little daughter of Anna Magnani." In Miracle Worker, she is completely in charge of an extraordinarily demanding role, a role that requires of the actress what it required of Annie Sullivan in real life: the sensitivity of a poet and the strength of a piano mover. It is a role that is doubly difficult because it demands a violation...
Last week, fielding questions from textile workers in Querétaro, LÓpez Mateos handled one of Mexico's hottest issues: religion. Countering the violently anticlerical traditions of the Mexican revolution, he promised "absolute freedom of belief" and told a Roman Catholic worker that his convictions "should remain invariable, letting neither time nor intrigue shadow them...
...Once Upon a Christmas Tree (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A fantasy by Paul Gallico about 13 orphans who spend Christ mas in a New England town. With Claude Rains, Charles Ruggles, Patty (Miracle Worker) Duke. Color...