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Matthew's first professional stage part was in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, in which he played the adopted homosexual son of a former drag queen. Slightly built (5 ft. 8 in.), Broderick looks no more than 17. Fierstein, who was the star as well as the author, kept telling him to hurry his lines. Broderick resisted, and the two yelled and fought. "Harvey used to push me against the wall - he's strong as a bull - but it freed me up a lot as an actor to play against him. He has a nice freedom...
...constant in Hope's day is his nightly walk. He heads for Palm Springs' main drag, which is teeming with teen-agers at 1 in the morning. It is the vaudevillian's instinct that the moment you are off the stage the audience begins to forget you, and so Hope works even here; he window-shops and scratches autographs on cocktail napkins, all without breaking his stride. Hope confesses that he's "slowing down a bit. I still need the laughs and the adulation, but I guess I can get those from my specials...
...friendlier aspects of American life. But even by the contentious standards of boss-worker struggles in our society this year's negotiations between the University and during hall workers represented by Local 26 of the International Hotel. Restaurant. Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union ranks as a genuine knock-down drag-out. Indeed there really haven't been any negotiations at all between Local 26 president Domenic M. Bozzotto and Harvard chief labour negotiator Edward W. Powers. As the workers contract approaches its June 19 expiration date, the two men have spent most of their time in a posturing...
...research included discoveries about the absorption of gas into liquids under pressure that led to ways of protecting deep-sea divers from the bends. Hildebrand officially retired in 1952, but continued to teach graduate students, conduct research and write until a few months ago. "Brains are not such a drag on the market," he said, "that they should be deactivated prematurely...
...charm of being air bone may not be clear to those who scan the sky only for unidentified flying objects. Why fly? Por Russell, "it's an obsession--more addicting than any drag I know...