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...couple of years after the divorce, however, Sondheim's mother made a doting gesture that transformed his life. Stephen, then 12, had made a new friend named Jamie Hammerstein, son of Oscar, the lyricist of Very Warm for May, and was invited to the family farm in Doylestown, Pa., for a weekend. The weekend turned into a summer and, not long after, Mrs. Sondheim bought a house in Doylestown so Stephen could live there year-round. She continued to commute to Manhattan, often stayed there during the week and on weekends typically brought along guests. But as Jamie Hammerstein recalls...
Visiting Pennsylvania, President Reagan had a different reception. He toured the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown, where he gave a religious tapestry from Poland to the Pauline fathers who care for the Polish-American shrine. Crowds shouted, "Four more years! Four more years!" John Cardinal Krol of Philadelphia praised Reagan for supporting federal aid to religious schools. Reagan drew cheers by declaring, "Thank God for Pope John Paul II." The President said that he had sought the Pope's "advice and guidance on numerous occasions...
DIED. David Burpee, 87, horticulturist whose mail order seed business, W. Atlee Burpee Co., developed the first commercially available tomato, cantaloupe and cucumber hybrids and sold 1,400 varieties of plants; in Doylestown...
...five panelists fears that Carter would turn out to be a big spender. Said Judith DeWilde, a moderate Republican from Doylestown, Pa.: "He's promising all things to all people. Somebody has to say who is going to pay for the guaranteed wage program and the national health bill." A third of the panel shared the feeling that Carter is too much of an unknown, and that makes it risky to vote for him. Said Marie Silence: "I'm afraid of Carter and the radical changes he might make. Nobody really knows what he will do." Carter...
...take his obligations lightly, and the way he tells it. he owes a lot to sports. As a closet jock−and most Jock Lit starts with confession−Michener testifies that basketball rescued him from a career of crime as a tough kid in Doylestown, Pa. At 69, tennis is his game. Since 1965, when he suffered a coronary infarction, he has credited sports with saving his life. By Michener standards, this calls for a nearly 500-page thank-you note...