Word: willards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piece of rural nostalgia, but it is still a plotless set of fragments unified by little more than the author's tone of voice and a mood of isolated lives. For dramatic focus, Adapter Sergel forfeited the rich multiplicity of characters, fastened upon the struggle of ailing Elizabeth Willard (Dorothy McGuire) to free her sensitive if needed son George (Ben Piazza) from the cramp of Winesburg and his crass hotelkeeper-father (James Whitmore) and let him go off to become a writer...
Died. Frank Henry Willard, 64, Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate cartoonist, creator of derby-hatted urchin Kayo, somnolent Lord Plushbottom and other cronies of banjo-eyed Moon Mullins in the long-running (since 1924) comic strip; of a stroke; in Los Angeles...
...small town and being a collection of short stories. The book leans toward unity only by having the same characters reoccur every now and then, by presenting most of the characters as similarly crucified by life, and by introducing most of the smaller characters through one person, George Willard, the sensitive young writer...
...This ruling could be a real economic disaster for the pipeline companies." So last week said Willard W. Gatchell, general counsel for the Federal Power Commission, as the $1.8 billion-a-year natural gas pipeline industry began to feel the impact of a precedent-setting court decision. Handed down recently by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the little publicized ruling would i) greatly curtail FPC's authority to control interstate natural gas prices, and 2) give every major gas consumer the power to block a rate increase...
...transaction was the second of the day and both involved National League clubs. Earlier, the St. Louis Cards sent pitchers Willard Schmidt, Marty Kutyna and Ted Wieand to Cincinnati...