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MOVING a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan, it went. After 22 years at 9 Rockefeller Plaza, TIME'S editorial apparatus-from green pencils to Teletypesetting machines-moved a block west to the new 48-story TIME and LIFE Building at 50th Street and the Avenue of the Americas...
...vaudeville, circus, burlesque, Bobby ad-libbed through a series of revivals that were not worth reviving without him. In Victor Herbert's Sweethearts, he confided to the audience: "Never was a thin plot so complicated." When informed in Moliere's The Would-Be Gentleman that the alphabet is divided into vowels and consonants, he rejoined: "That's only fair." A master of low comedy, Bobby brought craftsmanship to roles great and small. His favorite dramatist: Shakespeare, because "the clowns never get killed...
...even Tangle Towns was a middle ground the News and the Mirror had run contests, but nothing unduly taxing to their readers' intellects. The News contests generally required the ability to read numerals and a knowledge of the alphabet (like the Lucky Bucks game, which had contestants comparing the serial numbers of dollar bills to a set printed in the paper; when they matched, the News gave a prize to those who were bright enough to discover the fact). Tangle Towns was tougher: You needed to know the entire alphabet well (upside down and sideways, too), and a little American...
...prepare for Miracle Worker, Anne worked at the Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Manhattan; she attended a workshop sponsored by Northwestern University and the American Foundation for the Blind; she practiced the manual alphabet at a camp for deaf-blind adults in Spring Valley, N.Y. And she suffered through her experience as a blind girl on a roller coaster. Finally she met the child who would become her partner in one of the finest performances of a theatrical generation-Patty Duke...
...before Patty got her first TV roles, the family teetered on the edge of poverty. In Miracle Worker, it was Anne to whom Patty looked for approval; it was Anne who became her particular pal. Soon, says Arthur Penn, "Patty and Anne were carrying on conversations in the manual alphabet behind our backs, cracking jokes and having themselves a time...