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...generation Russian Jew, was almost as much of a source for Archie as Alf Garnett was. He used to call Norman "the laziest white kid I ever saw" and order his wife to "stifle" ? both expressions that were to become Archie's. The family shifted restlessly from New Haven, Conn., where Norman was born, to nearby Hartford, then to Boston and New York City, as the elder Lear pursued a variety of get-rich-quick schemes with a lot of gall but little success. Norman decided to become a pressagent like his uncle Jack, "the only relative on either side...
...Erik, who knew almost as soon as he could speak that he would lose his vision in his early teens, excelling as an athlete was the result of accepting his disability rather than denying it. Growing up with two brothers in Hong Kong and then Weston, Conn., he was always an athletic kid, a tough gamer who developed a bump-and-grind one-on-one basketball game that allowed him to work his way close to the hoop. He was, his father Ed says, "a pretty normal kid. While bike riding, he might have run into a few more parked...
BOOK Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter J. Conn "I read The Good Earth, like everybody else did, probably in high school, but there are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. For instance, she started Welcome House, which was one of the first adoption agencies that allowed Americans to adopt interracial children from all over the world...
...Erik, who knew almost as soon as he could speak that he would lose his vision in his early teens, excelling as an athlete was the result of accepting his disability rather than denying it. Growing up with two brothers in Hong Kong and then Weston, Conn., he was always an athletic kid, a tough gamer who developed a bump-and-grind one-on-one basketball game that allowed him to work his way close to the hoop. He was, his father Ed says, "a pretty normal kid. While bike riding, he might have run into a few more parked...
DIED. IMOGENE COCA, 92, wide-eyed, winsome comedian and Sid Caesar's co-star in the 1950s television classic Your Show of Shows; in Westport, Conn. Petite in stature but possessed of outsize energy, Coca won an Emmy in 1952 for her subtly satirical performance on the show, which aired live for 90 minutes on Saturday nights and during which Coca and Caesar, without the aid of cue cards, acted out skits lampooning marriage, everyday life and popular culture...