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...yearbook of Connecticut's elite Chaffee School predicted that Ella Rosa Giovanna Oliva Tambussi, the Italian immigrants' daughter who was there on scholarship, would become the first woman mayor of her home town, Windsor Locks, Conn. That was much too modest a forecast. As a young wife and mother, with a Phi Beta Kappa key and M.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke, Ella Grasso was elected to the state assembly in 1952. Captivated by her drive and political savvy, Democratic Boss John Bailey took her on as a speechwriter and adviser. Bailey once told her, she recalls, that "the only...
...Willy Loman and Miller's former wife, Marilyn Monroe (Death of a Salesman and After the Fall). So last year Miller's interest was aroused when he heard about Peter Reilly, 18, who had been convicted of manslaughter for the 1973 killing of his mother in Canaan, Conn.-not far from Miller's home. Reviewing the evidence and the confession (which Reilly made after many sleepless hours of interrogation and later recanted), Miller had doubts. For example, says the psychologically oriented playwright, Reilly, after confessing, "reached no cathexis ... no discharge of a new order of feeling toward...
Kevin Flanagan Norwalk, Conn...
...disillusioned contemporaries were rebelling brilliantly as expatriates in Paris, Wilder, whose grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, sometimes plotted out his writing during church services, taught contentedly at a New Jersey prep school (Lawrenceville) and ended up a lifelong bachelor sharing a house with his sister Isabel in Hamden, Conn. Rotund, kind and twinkly to the point of Dickensian caricature, he was, as he pointed out, the sort of man whom "news vendors in university towns call 'Professor,' and hotel clerks, 'Doctor...
Fairfield, Conn...