Word: essex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a record like that, Angela Lansbury surely must have been heading for a truly climactic Hollywood role-maybe as Bette Davis' grandmother in Son of Elizabeth and Essex. Certainly no sane Broadway producer could have thought of her as a high-stepping, pratfalling, ageless kook of an Auntie Mame who believes that "life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are starving to death." But that is just what she's doing. She is playing the title role in Mame, the musical-comedy version of Patrick Dennis' novel-play-movie. Mame is Broadway...
...state-supported schools; the report suggests that some of the money should go instead to enlarging the faculty. In effect, Oxford prefers to continue educating boys from private preparatory schools and leave the education of others to the red brick colleges and such new universities as Sussex and Essex. All of this lends credence to a recent howl by an undergraduate magazine that Oxford is "a piece of the medieval world in which few earn their keep and in which idleness, frivolity, conceit, class prejudice, petty politics and corruption are rife...
...Castro air attacks. Then, in a post-midnight meeting, Kennedy, as Sorensen says, "agreed finally that unmarked Navy jets could protect the B-26s when they provided the cover the next morning." Schlesinger elaborates a bit: the President authorized "a flight of six unmarked jets from the Carrier Essex over the invasion area . . . Their mission would be to cover a new B-26 attack from Nicaragua. They were not to seek air combat or ground targets, but could defend the Cuban brigade's planes from air attack...
...While nearly everyone showed up for the announced "Salem Historic Tour" despite the rain, the spirit of many of the day's planned features--including a tour of the North Shore Gardens--was dampened by the weather. According to one of the undergraduates who helped with activities at the Essex Country Club, "the rain ruined everything, everyone stayed...
...Essex Country Club will be the starting point for today's activities. Members, their wives, and eldest children will play golf and tennis, swim and tour the North Shore during the morning, and then polish off the traditional lobster luncheon...