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DIED. Helen Van Slyke, 59, businesswoman turned bestselling novelist; after a brief illness; in New York City. Van Slyke headed the fashion section of the Washington Star at age 19, eventually becoming a vice president at Helena Rubinstein. Adept at identifying women's tastes, she decided in 1970 to apply her talent to writing. Van Slyke produced eight hugely successful modern romances, including the current blockbuster A Necessary Woman, devised, she said, for "blue-haired ladies in the cocktail hour of life...
...part in the scenes with Dogberry (Peter S. Miller) and Verges (David Frutkoff), the "mechanicals" or clowns of this comedy. As the town watch and constabulary they are the ones who unravel the intrigue by which Don John (here "the Prince") convinces Claudio of his beloved's infidelity. An adept at malapropism, Dogberry conducts hearings and gathers evidence with the aid of the manic Verges, who in Sellars' production runs from dummy to dummy both to interrogate and to respond...
...shed is also still chancy. Every horsebreeder follows the maxim: "Breed the best to the best and hope for the best." One of the factors in the mix that has produced so many dominant horses is that, for reasons science cannot explain, Bold Ruler has proved to be unusually adept at what breeders call "stamping his get," i.e., passing on his strong points to his descendants. Bold Ruler is the sire of Secretariat, the grandsire of Spectacular Bid, the great grandsire of Seattle Slew...
...Adept Advice...
Congratulations to Rosalynn Carter [May 7] on the advice she has given her husband. She seems to be very adept at it, and now that we know who the brain is behind all of those decisions, maybe she should be nominated for the presidency. She would probably do a better...