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...Brown production of Hair is an All-American rags-to-rags success story. Two days after it opened last spring at the Production Workshop. Brown's equivalent of the Loeb Ex, people began lining up at 9 a.m. to pick up the free tickets distributed 10 hours later. Only slotted for six performances, the story of Hair would have ended there, were it not for a mysterious donor who gave the group $4,000 to take the show on tour...
...mysterious defection of an all-American G.I. Joey...
...indeed? White was a so-so student at St. John the Baptist High School, indifferent to sports and too shy to be very popular, but he still qualified as an old-fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...
...star's brat, going chubby and haywire, while her father Henry played love scenes and went to war. In the late '50s Jane was a Vogue cover girl, fresh out of Vassar and mummified in heavy makeup. The early '60s saw her as Hollywood's all-American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday in New York. A few years later, her then husband Roger Vadim retooled her into a European sex symbol as Barbarella. By the early '70s she was a scrawny, scraggly Hanoi Jane, the ardent activist who visited the Viet Cong, turned...
...were teachers, farmers, service workers, ministers, musicians, many excitedly meeting for the first time. Some stopped off to visit family sites like the grave of Haley's great-great-grandfather, Chicken George. "It was, of course, very emotional," said Haley. By the time everything wound up in that all-American ritual, the family picnic, the Haley clan was already talking about its next giant reunion...