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...MICHAEL J. ARLEN...
...Philadelphia district attorney. Arlen Spector propose to attack the problem of homosexual rape in local jails...
Dent in Power. Though a Democrat, Sprague had served as first assistant to Republican D.A. Arlen Specter from 1966 to 1974. He so admired his boss that he turned down an offer from Democratic leaders to run for D.A. in his own right. The Democrats then nominated F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, a successful criminal lawyer who trounced Specter in the election. Fitzpatrick wasted no time reorganizing the office. "After all, I campaigned against the operations of this office," he points out. One big change: assistant D.A.s were told they could come directly to the boss with problems. Previously they...
Dark, slinky, with a faintly Oriental mien and a marvelously adaptable mouth, Cornell was dubbed the American Duse. After indelibly establishing her star status as the sultry Iris March in Michael Arlen's The Green Hat, she later chose rich dramatic roles in the "Katharine Cornell Presents" company she founded with McClintic in 1931. Its first production, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, featured Cornell as the consumptive Elizabeth Barrett. In 1933 Cornell took the company on a landmark 21,000-mile road trip through the U.S., bringing The Barretts, Shaw's Candida and Romeo and Juliet to such...
...Give You Anything But Love (1928), the Oscar-winning The Way You Look Tonight (1936) and hundreds of other popular songs; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. During her career of nearly a half-century, Fields collaborated with such composers as Jerome Kern and Harold Arlen. With her brother Herbert she wrote the books for the Broadway hits Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and Redhead...