Word: casey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play does more than dabble in sentiment. It is wet with it. But Playwright Friel frequently and expertly applies the dry saving sponge of humor. Without O'Casey and Joyce, the play might have existed, but not so good a play. Friel utilizes reverie, flashback, and stream of consciousness, but his cleverest device is to divide Gareth O'Donnell into a public and private self played, respectively, by Patrick Bedford and Donal Donnelly. This palpable alter ego, invisible to the other characters, acts as a jazzy Greek chorus, a human pep pill, and a court jester. He laughs...
...strength of the Vietnamese rail road lies with its plucky engineers, Oriental Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon...
Born. To Kathy Kersh, 23, ex-wife of Vince Edwards, 37, TV's hairy Ben Casey, whom she married in June and divorced in October: a daughter; in Los Angeles...
Last May he directed a production of Sean O'Casey's Ploughman and the Stars which received rave reviews in the major English newspapers. In November he directed the British premiere of Julius Hay's Horse...
Died. William Casey Marland, 47, West Virginia's drinking, brawling young Democratic Governor from 1953 to 1957, whose antics split the party and led to his defeat in two subsequent bids for a Senate seat, after which he dropped out of sight, suddenly reappeared last March as a Chicago cab driver and explained that he was attempting to "begin from the beginning" after years of alcoholism; of cancer of the pancreas, shortly after accepting a comeback position as administrative assistant to West Virginia Manufacturer (National Mattress Co.) James F. Edwards; in Barrington...