Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...unstable emotions. Two New Yorkers, described by De Sola as ex-Communists who could verify his charges, also contradicted him. Fifteen ex-members of the John Reed Club denied ever knowing an Anna Rosenberg. An imposing set of endorsements of Mrs. Rosenberg poured in from George Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, Bernard Baruch and many others...
...George Bernard Shaw was 50 when he found an epitaph in the old churchyard of Ayot Saint Lawrence, 22 miles from London. It read: "1825-1895-Her time was short." Then & there Shaw, who intended to live to 100, decided that the quiet Hertfordshire hamlet where 70 was considered a short life would be an ideal place to spend the coming 50 years. Shaw found a house, moved in, learned to love Ayot...
...seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...
...Brussels, free-spending Briton George Dawson, who was wanted by U.S. authorities in Germany on charges of shady dealings in war surplus, slugged it out with London Daily Express Reporter Bernard West when he tried to interview him. Later, Express officials ordered West to drop assault charges against Dawson, explained coolly: "Express staff reporters do not fight with hoodlums...
...George Bernard Shaw, last season's favorite, is represented by two of his less frequently acted plays, Arms and the Man and Captain Brassbound's Conversion. The former is done with central staging, for those who like that sort of thing, and the latter opens as part of the City Center repertory bill next Wednesday...