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...other's heads; beer cans, pickles, jars of mustard and cartons of milk sailed through the dressing room. Club Owner Jerry Hoffberger was heaved bodily into the shower. He staggered out soaking wet, grabbed a telephone, and placed a person-to-person call to a Mr. William O. DeWitt in Cincinnati. "Mr. DeWitt?" crooned Hoffberger. "I just want to tell you how much I appreciate everything you have done...
Those who go too far are generally female, though Eric House's foppish Tattle who always deals with women "who shall remain nameless" and Terrence Currier's shoutingly gruff sailor Ben "who wants a little polishing" have their share of slapstick hysterics. A few players like Dixie Dewitt's drunken Nurse are too raucous-voiced all along, but the general problem is not knowing when to stop. Miss Clayburgh and Mr. House's seduction scene has some deftly staged running around but the audience tires around the half-mile mark...
From Outer Space. When they tired of too much Candy, reporters came up with surprising sidebars. The Chicago Daily News's M. W. Newman noted that Candy's brother DeWitt Weatherby, a Georgia tavern keeper, was convicted in 1956 of murdering a customer; one of his defense attorneys was Carl Sanders, now the Governor of Georgia. The Miami News's Haines Colbert reported that on the anniversary of her husband's death, Candy sent newspapers some pictures of herself and her four adopted children mourning at Mossler's grave...
Bothered Brethren. To many Washingtonians, Moyers is one of the squarest guys in town. Because of his Baptist credentials, his cottage-cheese complexion and Sunday-school propriety, he is likely to have trouble shedding the Eagle Scout image. Yet, insists Dr. DeWitt Reddick. director of the University of Texas Journalism School, where Moyers was a straight-A student: "There's nothing sanctimonious about him." And, press critics to the contrary, he was never a Boy Scout...
...they encounter some convinced atheists, more often the doubter is like the University of Houston graduate student who told a Baptist chaplain that she "had hated God since she was six" because a minister told her that "God had taken" her father when he died. Now, says the Rev. DeWitt Baldwin of the University of Michigan, "the students say simply, 'I just don't know what to believe.' They're seeking meaning, but don't feel that the church is giving good definitions...