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Maud Gonne wore widow's weeds for MacBride, but also for Ireland. She did not agree with Eamon de Valera's government. She wrote her memoirs, and was outraged when Communist organizers came to Ireland in 1930 and "one young puppy had the cheek to tell me they had come to teach us how to fight." Bedridden but still a political force, she backed her son, Sean MacBride, and his Republican Party in a successful campaign against De Valera in 1948, but when she went to the polls, one who saw her cried: "That woman is exactly like...
...gave both his name and a twist on his name to the style of cheek-whiskers he affected: burnsides and sideburns...
...Cheek to Cheek. The result was one of the best TV shows ever. Making his TV debut, Evans had to unlearn, in 30 hours of camera rehearsal, nearly all the stagecraft he had amassed in playing Hamlet 777 times on the legitimate stage. "In TV, it's all cheek to cheek," he says. "You can't stand away from another actor and project, like you do on the stage." NBC Director Albert McCleery's biggest job was "pulling down" Evans' projection to TV size. Both men were brilliantly successful, and Evans' famed clarity of diction...
David H. Alpers, Merion, Pa.; Robert I. Blake, Braintree, Mass.; Norman Bruck, Newark, N. D.; Edward P. Carter, Manchester, N. H.; Marian A. Cheek, Weston, Mass.; Monroe D. Dowling, Jr., New York City; Joseph D. French, Newton, Mass.; Thomas S. Gates 3d, Devon, Pa.; James A. C. Gerry, Spartanburg, S. C.; Norman E. Hartness. Tulsa, Okla.; Fletcher Hodges 3d., Pittsburgh, Pa.; Robert E. Morrison, Newton, Mass.; John C. Perkins, Hampton, N. H.; Donald G. Richards, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Paul S. Rosenthal, Dorchester, Mass.; George W. Smith Jr., Tiptonville, Tenn.; Kilby P. Smith, Scituate, Mass...
Nonetheless, against all odds, and even against common sense, Albert forged ahead, shoving with both hands and sometimes with his cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone...