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...might well be considered a new driving force behind the Equal Rights Amendment. Currently on a ten-city tour with a production of George Kelly's Daisy Mayme, she has been steering limousine services onto the road toward employment equality by requesting female drivers whenever she needs a chauffeur. A feminist, Stapleton has been able to have her cake and Edith too. In Boston, two women drivers were added to a once all-male payroll, and in Washington, she was expertly guided through the city's busy streets by Joann Wernke, 24. In Seattle, how ever, Stapleton suggested...
Jailbird, By Kurt Vonnegut (Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, $9.95): At last, Vonnegut captures the essence of the Harvard Experience: Mid-Western chauffeur's son is packed off to Harvard by a stammering millionaire. He promptly becomes a Communist, serves time in the Roosevelt and Nixon camps, then lands in jail as a Watergate henchman. Praised as the best of Vonnegut's recent works...
Fiedler's widow, Ellen Bottomley Fielder, and her children attended the service, as did friends and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) staff. "People from all walks of life, the Boston Symphony, the Pops, the trustees, all the symphony's stage employees, his chauffeur, and ushers were there," Dickson, assistant conductor, said yesterday...
...royals repair to the palace, discreetly signaling to their lingering guests that the idyll has ended. Some leave as they came, in chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royces and Daimlers; others head homeward by tube or bus. In 1870 the Times of London wrote, "The day was one of which every particular is worthy to be treasured in memory." And it still...
...group, at least, has no housing problems. Harvard's handsome Loeb Center, built in 1960, has been a Rolls-Royce without a chauffeur. The university has no drama department, and the student-run productions have been of varying quality. This fall, however, Robert Brustein, the former dean of the Yale drama school and founder of the Yale Repertory Theater, will become the Loeb's director. According to Boston. Theater Critic Elliot Norton, Brustein is the best thing that has happened to the town since Ted Williams. Brustein is bringing with him at least 30 Yale Rep veterans...