Word: andrews
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Waves from Wendell. Press Secretary Hagerty's father is a newsman through and through. He is James Andrew Hagerty (the middle names are different, and Jim dislikes having a Jr. hooked on), who left the little Plattsburg (N.Y.) Press for the old New York Herald, went on to the Times, where he became one of the fine political reporters of his day (he retired in 1954). Young Jim went to Columbia (A.B. '34) and followed his father to the Times. He worked the city's political districts and, in 1938, went to the State Capitol in Albany...
...Died. Andrew Geer, 52, brawny military novelist and historian (The New Breed), who joined the British army in World War II, served with Montgomery's Desert Rats in North Africa, later, as a U.S. Marine captain, saw action at Saipan and Iwo Jima, as a major commanded a battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Korea, authored the bestselling (2,000,000 copies) war novel The Sea Chase; of cancer; in San Rafael, Calif...
...ANDREW WYETH Chadds Ford...
...Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is the kind of play that gives classics a bad name. The 350-year-old romantic comedy acts its age. Its plot conventions are no less archaic than its Elizabethan jargon, e.g., tillyvally, bawcock, clodpole. Such venerable comics as Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek are no subtler or funnier than the names they bear. However fetchingly its poetry may glisten through the monkeyshines, it is a comedy of errors usually compounded in production. To handle this thorny flower at all on sponsored TV takes courage beyond the call of drama; to evoke...
...Explains Andrew E. Svenson. a writer and editor for the syndicate: "We have what we call the Stratemeyer formula. In our stories there's no murder, no undue violence-a girl can be tied up. but that's all. There's no gunplay by our heroes. No matter how hard they're pressed, they win by their wits." Neither is there any swearing. The Bobbsey twins used to say an occasional "Gosh" or "Golly." but when a reader protested that these were distant euphemisms for God ("And. by gosh." says Svenson in surprise, "she was right...