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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Died. Theresa Helburn, 72, tiny (5 ft.), hard-driving director (one of six) of the Theatre Guild since its founding in 1919. co-director after 1939, who gave up middling playwriting and dramatic criticism to rescue the Broadway stage from commercial mediocrity in the 1920s by tenaciously putting on demanding works by such authors as G. B. Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood and William Inge, was the first to pair Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage (The Guardsman, 1924); of a heart attack"; in Norwalk, Conn. The Theatre Guild never recaptured its glories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1959 | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Hollywood's 1957 Oscar-winning "best actress" (Three Faces of Eve), and Paul Newman, 34, actor of stage (Sweet Bird of Youth) and screen (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof): their first child, a daughter (he has three children by an earlier marriage) ; in Manhattan. Name: Elinor Theresa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...sign-carrying, egg-throwing mob vented its spleen against the apparent inequities of the proposed ruling, vilifying particularly Cornell president Deane W. Malott and Miss Theresa Humphreyville, Chairman of the Committee on Student Activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egg Hits Dean In Cornell Riot | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Last week, for the first time in 20 months, the law closed in on a gouger. Suspended for ten days was the city's No. 1 agency, the combined Tyson Operating Co. and Sullivan Theatre Ticket Service. Out of a job was $40-a-week Clerk Theresa Hale, who extracted $10 from Businessman Philip Stogel for four tickets to Meredith Willson's cornfest, The Music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Untender Trap | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Gerty Theresa Cori, 61, Czech-born U.S. biochemist, professor of biological chemistry at Washington University's School of Medicine (since 1947), winner (with her biochemist husband Carl) of a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1947 for studies of the body's uses of starches and sugars; of complications of myelofibrosis, a disease of the bone marrow; in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

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