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WHAT CAN one really say about Harvey, that good old adorable 1940s comedy about a rich, eccentric family whose bachelor uncle thinks he sees a giant rabbit? This play is it--the absolute warhorse of warhorses, a cuddly, cute and utterly innocuous script which hit its peak 30 years ago with a Jimmy Stewart movie and has since been relegated to the position of favored stand-by for a hundred thousand suburban high schools...
...been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, even though quite a few copies of Leaving Home are circulating there. Mavis and I drove up last weekend to see how her Mom's doing after the gallbladder operation. Most everybody was talking about your book (except the Norwegian bachelor farmers, who were not to be diverted from their predictions of a dire winter to come). They had all heard these stories when you told them on A Prairie Home Companion. But radio evanesces. Print is history. It's like going to church: you worry how you look coming in the door...
...uncle in Daytona Beach, Fla. An intelligent and resilient child with a flair for music, she was a piano soloist at her baccalaureate ceremony at Daytona Beach's Seabreeze High School in 1960. With money supplied by her grandfather, she attended the University of Florida, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in history with honors...
...meantime, Cosby, who had once vowed to quit show business at 34 and become a teacher, sought to finish his education. The bachelor's degree that he did not complete at Temple was belatedly awarded to him on the basis of "life experience." Then he enrolled in a part-time doctoral program in education at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was awarded an Ed.D. degree in 1977, a credential that Cosby proudly displays every week in the credits for his TV series ("William Cosby Jr., Ed.D." is listed as one of the show's three creators). His degree...
...took it to heart. Gershwin's music reflected an emotional ebullience, but he rarely gave all of himself in private life. He was exceptionally close to his brother; they shared a house even after Ira's marriage. But George remained a bachelor whose most valued female friend was the married composer Kay Swift...