Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sends him to the aid of promising Actress Joan Fontaine, who has taken to the bottle because she is afraid of facing a Broadway opening night. Milland's interest in her progresses, of course, from the clinical to the romantic. But since he is happily married to Teresa Wright and has two children, nothing much happens, and the actress and the adman finally go their separate ways, both of them stronger for having known each other...
Walter C. Carrington '52 will give "A Letter to the President," by Arthur B. Spingarn and Lilly P. Wright. Theodore L. Gershuny '54 will give selections from George Bernard Shaw's "The Apple Cart," James M. Harkless '52 will present "The Speech of Herod," from W. H. Auden's "The Massacre of the Innocepts." Burton G. Malkiel '53 will give Cassius' speech to Brutus from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar...
...unfortunate that Teresa Wright chose Salt of the Earth for her return to the stage after a long absence. For, despite the competent efforts of Miss Wright and the rest of the cast, this new Mary Drayton comedy (based on Ardyth Kennelly's novel, "The Peacable Kingdom") is both lifeless and unfunny...
...Force's Brigadier General Albert Boyd of the Wright Air Development Center, Dayton, Ohio, and Major "Chuck" Yeager took turns flying the Mystere over Marignane, France, checking its airspeed system by flying it alongside F-86 Sabres. "An excellent interceptor," they concluded, and recommended that the French put it into production. The Mystère will begin coming off assembly lines next month at Bordeaux's Dassault Aircraft plant. Target: a plane a day by the end of the year...
...Consolidated Vultee directors elected General Joseph T. McNarney (ret.), 59, as their president. McNarney was top U.S. general in the Mediterranean theater in 1944-45, later commanded all U.S. forces in Europe. After war's end, he was boss of procurement and research for the Air Force at Wright Field, and from 1949 to his retirement this year, he was chairman of the Department of Defense Management Committee, a top-level military coordinating group. At Convair he succeeds La Motte Turck Cohu, 56, president since 1948, who becomes vice chairman of the board under Chairman Floyd Odlum...