Word: brooklyn
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...Little Dirt. The upscale sound of Alexander Euclid Scourby was bred in Brooklyn, but any vestige of his home borough or his immigrant parents' Greek accent was drilled out of him by the time he was 19, when he apprenticed with Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory Theater. Within four years, he was on Broadway as the Player King to Leslie Howard's Hamlet, and had developed so Shakespearean an intonation that he bombed his first radio auditions. So, he says, "I dirtied it up a little bit and made it sound Amer ican." Soon he was dovetailing...
Star Photos. Richard Merkin, 29, is a Brooklyn Miniver Cheevy, born too late to know at first hand the decades between the wars. But he has become an indefatigable researcher into the era, which he sees typified by "an innocence, a lack of maturity, and on the other hand, a marvelous sense of style and elegance." To recapture the past, he surrounds himself with trivia, including old copies of Esquire, FORTUNE and The New Yorker, a collection of Popeye lamps, Old Gold cigarette posters and bound volumes of Superman comics. Merkin adopts the look of the past as well...
Died. Stanley Berman, 41, Brooklyn cab driver and self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Gate-Crasher"; of a blood infection; in Brooklyn. No occasion was too exclusive, no dignitary too aloof for Berman, who posed as a waiter to demand Queen Elizabeth II's autograph during her 1957 visit, crashed J.F.K.'s Inaugural Ball in 1961, and had his finest moment in 1962 when he charged onstage to hand Bob Hope an Oscar in front of 100 million TV watchers...
Eight months after the death of Joseph Cardinal Ritter, St. Louis Catholics finally got a new archbishop last week. He is the Most Rev. John Joseph Carberry, 63, Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, for the past three years. Born in Brooklyn, Carberry studied at the ecclesiastical boot camp for future U.S. bishops, the North American College in Rome, and is currently chairman of the U.S. hierarchy's Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Last month Carberry became the first Catholic bishop to receive the Protestant Ohio Council of Churches' annual "Pastor of Pastors" award. He is considered slightly more...
...disagreement. These two books are the latest in a still-growing list that challenges the Arendt argument. In The Holocaust, Philadelphia-based Historian Nora Levin maintains that the Jews "resisted physically much more than is generally known, and under conditions that are scarcely credible." In While Six Million Died, Brooklyn-born Journalist Arthur Morse insists that any Jewish acquiescence was insignificant when measured against the apathy and indifference of the U.S. and the world's other civilized nations...