Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mother Rachel Kempson, 63, is appearing in a Thames Television series on Winston Churchill, playing his grandmother, the dowager Duchess of Maryborough. Brother Corin Redgrave, 34, is finishing a film in Australia, and Father Sir Michael Redgrave, 68, opened last week in The Hollow Crown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Arriving in New York City, he hastened to congratulate youngest daughter Lynn Redgrave, 30, for scoring her second success on Broadway, as the demon slimmer of My Fat Friend. Said Lynn ebulliently: "It's nice to know we're all working and can finally pay the rent...
...underestimates the American public will never go broke!" cried "Professor" Irwin Corey, paraphrasing H.L. Mencken to a dazed National Book Awards' audience in Manhattan. Standing in for Thomas Pynchon, whose Gravity's Rainbow shared the 1973 fiction prize with Isaac Bashevis Singer's A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Comedian Corey confused the assembled authors, critics and publishers with a frenetic routine, prompting some to think that he was really the reclusive Pynchon himself. Others believed that his performance was a clever parody of Pynchon's tortuous style. The ceremonies were...
Then there was the winter let down, and the flu that ruined any chances for a two-mile crown at the Greater Boston Championships...
...DeBusschere's first full season with the Knicks, the team compiled the best won-lost record in the NBA with a 60-22 record and went on to take the crown. In the five full years DeBusschere has been with the club, the Knicks have been to the Eastern Conference finals each year and have pocketed the NBA championship twice...
Looking further into the future, to the Preakness and the Belmont, would be pointless right now. One thing is certain, though: it's a pretty good bet that there won't be a Triple Crown winner this year. But keep your eye on Penny Tweedy's twosome, anyway. Even a small-degree of association with her former champions may be enough to get Capital Asset and Capito by this year...