Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Paul Douglas, 52, sometime professional football player and radio announcer turned actor, who vaulted to Hollywood stardom (A Letter to Three Wives, Executive Suite) through his Broadway portrayal of the bumptious racketeer in Born Yesterday; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...YESTERDAY (118 pp.)-Maria Dermot -Simon & Schuster...
...Thousand Things, it is not the facts of life that matter so much in Yesterday as the fact of life. Author Dermout can tell much of what needs to be told about Javanese servants by catching them in moments of tenderness or bitterness when their blank-faced defenses are down. Best of all, she can describe a life no longer possible without resorting to plantation tears. Yesterday is offered as a bit of fiction. It does not matter how it is read, as imagination or autobiography; the best thing about this book is the fact that the reader is almost...
...press, was a journalistic baffler, though it did make for some bright writing and the appearance of punditic discovery. "One evidence of the change," wrote the Washington Evening Star's Garnett Horner from Gettysburg, "is the very fact that he held a news conference here at all yesterday." The New York Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston played a variation on the New Ike theme: "What appeared was not really 'a new Ike' at all, but a new reflection of that captivating figure, the 'old Ike' of London and Paris and the prepolitical...
...voice is smiling and seductive: "We'll go away together . . . Come away love, come away." The voice is big and bold: "Hey, you fool you! Why so cool you!" The voice is sad and soft behind real tears as the lights go down: "Only yesterday, when the world was young . . ." Whatever the tempo, Tin-Pan or torchy, the songs of Felicia Sanders throb with a strange, sinewy vitality in the basement's air-cooled dark. The mikes and the speakers and the slow-changing spotlights are superfluous. When Felicia sings, the silence beyond the stage is the silence...