Word: howards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to measure how much things have changed since Sidney Howard's play, "They Knew What They Wanted," won the Pulitzer prize in the late Twenties, go to the Shubert and see its revival with Paul Muni. In his preface Howard claims timelessness for his play, since "it is shamelessly, consciously, and even proudly derived from the legend of Tristram and Yseult...
...Tristram and Yseult legend is indeed timeless. Unfortunately Howard's play is not. Perhaps this is because it is untrue to the legend. It is a comedy; sympathy is with the husband, his wife loves him after all, and the lover goes off to 'Frisco. The poignancy of the husband's forgiveness is thus lost, doubly so today with the stigma of adultery in its present washed-out condition...
Holy Trinity's vestrymen have long looked askance at the sayings & doings of their ministers, Rector John Howard Melish, 74, and his son and associate rector, the Rev. William Howard Melish, 38 (TIME, May 3). Son William, a confirmed Communist-liner, is chairman of the Red-fronting National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, and has been associated with at least six other organizations listed as subversive by the Attorney General's office. His father not only tolerates his assistant's political activities, but once referred to them as "the work which the rector himself would have done...
This week Howard Hughes considered himself fortunate. He picked Damon as T.W.A. president to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of La Motte Cohu last June...
...make it pay off. As a start, Damon planned to spend most of his first year "traveling T.W.A. routes from San Francisco to Bombay, assimilating all the important information" about the line. An unruffled diplomat, Damon also seemed a likely man to get along with eccentric, erratic Howard Hughes...