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...could have recognized, back in May of 1960, such a hardy long-distance runner? Certainly not the critics. Walter Kerr, writing in the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, thought the show "a little less than satisfactory," and the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it "the sort of thing that loses magic the longer it endures...
...former fashion model, an author (Amazon Odyssey), and a radical feminist who collected as much as $ 1,500 per speech on the lecture circuit. Ti-Graee Atkinson, 37, is something more. "I'm broke," she announced last week, after receiving her first New York City welfare check. The reason? Those well-paying speaking engagements have apparently gone the way of student sit-ins and antiwar marches. She had applied for menial jobs, too, she noted, "But people say I'm too old or too famous or too hot to handle." Atkinson, who has delivered plenty of barbs...
...asking for even higher wage settlements, the most astronomical being the National Union of Seamen's demand for an 81% increase. The knee-jerk cycle continued last week as an incensed Healey threatened to levy still more taxes-a move that provoked left-wing Labor M.P. Norman Atkinson to call publicly for new party leadership...
Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29--who had been in partnership with Crane even when Crane threw John Atkinson out of the city manager post and replaced him with a hand-picked selection, John J. Curry '19--was assembling a coalition of Cambridge Civic Association reformers and independents who were getting weary of Crane's one-man rule...
...Chamber of Commerce memberships to the city I was really selling Townsend,"--full into the Crane fold. He and the rest of the Harvard Square businessmen--at that time native Cambrigians, residences in Cambridge being perhaps the most important prerequisite to community power--played ball with Crane. And through Atkinson, Crane reciprocated, cutting taxes when every other town's bills were skyrocketing...