Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Still, this production is not free from major disappointments, which could and should have been foreseen and forestalled by Landau and others concerned. The fault, dear reader, is not in ourselves, but in our stars--in this case, two Hollywood movie stars, Katharine Hepburn and Robert Ryan. They are both fine performers in their proper spheres, which in neither case includes Shakespeare. This unsuitability carries with it no ignominy; and the obvious devotion and will of these two cannot compensate. In the past decade, Miss Hepburn has played Rosalind, Portia, Beatrice, and Viola--none with great success. Ryan has done...
...United States government has not fully assumed its responsibilities toward underdeveloped countries, Robert H. Thayer, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, said in Monday night's open session. Congress should de-emphasize immediately tangible goals, he urged; rather it should "persuade citizens of recently-formed independent countries to take the soundest route to financial and cultural security, not necessarily the shortest route...
...Manhattan, Boxer Patterson, who regained his title in June from Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and plans to defend it in Los Angeles Nov. i, starred in a coronation ceremony witnessed by such fight fans as U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and Grand Old Democrat James A. Farley. His gift, symbolizing good behavior and pugilistic excellence: a jazzy gold crown peppered with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. Value, by D'Amato's estimate: $35,000. . . . Of all the U.S. ladies least likely to seem a homebody, Oldtime Stripper Gypsy Rose...
Until famed Golf Architect Robert Trent Jones finished his pernicious labors, the Firestone Country Club, private pasture of U.S. rubber barons, had offered nothing more complicated than a pleasant social sojourn on a workday afternoon...
...HOUR (I 89 pp.)-Robert Cormier-Coward-McCann...