Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yellow fever epidemic. Ginger and her mother open a genteel boardinghouse. The scene is Philadelphia, where the 3rd U.S. Congress is in session. Who should turn up as the young widow's star boarders but Senator Aaron Burr (David Niven) and Congressman James Madison (Burgess Meredith)? Of course, both celebrated statesmen fall promptly and hard for their pretty landlady...
...Playboy of the Western World. Burgess Meredith in an agreeable revival of the finest of modern folk satires (TIME...
...prize's final quarter went to Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley, also of Rockefeller-at-Princeton. Stanley was the man who threw a bomb into science (and philosophy and religion) by finding a Thing which acted like an inanimate chemical and also like a living, growing organism. It was the virus which causes the "mosaic disease" in tobacco plants. It can spread from plant to plant, multiplying within the living cells, apparently living itself. Dr. Stanley tricked it into a test tube, where it quieted down, the "living" molecules stacking together into protein crystals. But within this seemingly dead chemical...
...profit on the $25 million worth of books it distributed last year (over $13.5 million in actual sales, $10.5 million given away free). Scherman could keep it a secret because he and three members of his family owned almost 94% of B.O.M.C.'s stock (Vice President Meredith Wood and his wife owned the rest...
Last week's production was a pleasant one, though it did not catch all the music of the play, or even all the mirth. Actor Meredith's Christy was quite good at its best, but not all of a piece. Comedienne Mildred Natwick got the most liveliness into the play, but it was Dublin's Eithne Dunne-as Pegeen-who most caught The Playboy's spirit...