Word: dowds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maureen Dowd...
...when they can become ordinary one-city folk again."They are functioning on 'deferred gratification,' " says Sociologist Sussman. They are, in other words, the new troops of the Protestant ethic, enduring hardship now for the sake of better days ahead. - By John Leo. Reported by Maureen Dowd/ Washington and Nancy Pierce Williamson/New York, with other bureaus
Correspondent Maureen Dowd, who joined TIME's staff last September from the Washington Star, and who was working on her first cover story, found the subject beguiling and familiar. She grew up in Washington with five cats who produced 25 kittens. Though she proposed such dignified names as Princess and Napoleon for the kittens, her older brothers and sister insisted on calling all of them J. Fred Muggs, after NBC's famous chimpanzee. Sums up Dowd: "After years of covering public officials, I found cats a pleasant relief. Cats are every bit as narcissistic as politicians, but, happily...
...Reed. Reported by Maureen Dowd/ Washington and Georgia Harbison/New York, with other bureaus
DIED. Mary Coyle Chase, 74, a Colorado-born playwright and mother of three sons who wrote the 1945 Pulitzer-prizewinning play Harvey, an enchanting tale about Elwood P. Dowd, a gentle lush whose best friend is Harvey, a 6-ft.-plus talking rabbit that only Elwood could see and hear but two generations of Americans adored; of a heart attack; in Denver. A reporter for the Rocky Mountain News before she switched to playwriting, Chase was notably unsuccessful until Harvey suddenly brought her fame and fortune with its 1,775 Broadway performances and its remake as a movie starring Jimmy...