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...Davis & Blanchard, Elizabeth Arden, Pauline Betz, Frank Leahy, Leo Durocher, Jake Kramer, Jackie Robinson, Bob Chappuis, Barbara Ann Scott, Eddie Arcaro, Mel Patton, Joe DiMaggio, Ben Hogan...
That was the credo of Andrew Undershaft, the munitions magnate in Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. By their works, the world has known many Undershafts. It has always denounced them, and always kept them around. The Undershafts lived by making weapons of war for anyone who could pay the bill; sometimes they also made wars. Through the twilight of fact and legend that surrounded them and their international arms deals, they were known to Sunday supplement readers as merchants of death. The least known, and perhaps the last, of their brotherhood was a man who looked like a tall...
...four (from the Cambridge Neighborhood House) took out for Briggs to see Barbara Blessing and Martha Martin, both '52, who had taken special charge of them during the Christmas party. Dorm residents found out that the boys had come directly after church, skipping dinner to get to Driggs in time for the afternoon activity. They were too late, however, for dinner; so girls resurrected dessert remnants for refreshment. Afternoon activity turned out to be cards and sporadic banging on the grand plano...
...could ignore Olivier for his direction, production and acting of Hamlet. The year's outstanding performances by actresses were notable for a lack of glamor: Olivia de Havilland as a wild-eyed schizophrenic in The Snake Pit, Jane Wyman as a drab, deaf-mute slavey in Johnny Belinda, Barbara Stanwyck as a bedridden neurotic in Sorry, Wrong Number...
Namesake. In El Dorado, Kans., August Herman Draft Jr. got notice of his induction from Draft Board Clerk Barbara Jane Board...