Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father and his monocled friend were wisecracking at the top of the air waves, and news of her arrival splashed over the tabs. Now her age can be looked up, and reporters are starting to, because while Charlie McCarthy never got past eighth grade, Candice Bergen, Edgar's real-life daughter, grew up to be a living doll. Candice wants to earn enough modeling to study photography. "I am interested in the intellectual side of the camera," says she. But she may find the other end of the lens hard to leave. In the two months since she arrived...
...taking in $12,000 a week, or 27% of the theater's capacity. It is not grossing even that much yet, but its audience-which began with a pittance advance sale of $165-is promisingly growing. Broadway pros would have folded it, but Gilroy and his novice producer, Edgar Lansbury, are determined to take the gamble that the play will more than recover its present losses. "All these Broadway experts would like to write us off as an artistic success only," Gilroy says. "I want to be able to talk to them on their terms...
...plays a cunning, cold-hearted bastard with wonderful confidence and relish. Standing near Bramhall are Lear's fool, Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding company. John Lithgow plays an irregular Gloucester. His blinding scene is one of the play's best moments, but too frequently...
...Edgar Dessen, now 47, a physician, had been president of the Chamber of Commerce during the darkest days. Under his determined guidance, a 550-acre site near town was bought for $10 an acre as an "industrial development park." Not long after, the Pennsylvania state legislature passed a law providing loans to towns that could scrape up outright contributions from townspeople-as well as bank loans-to attract new industry. Dessen got a local organization going to get the money, dubbed it CAN DO, then spent three weeks trying to dream up some words to fit the initials. Finally...
...Northern Territory and requiring them to attend school in English, since they have no written language. Other states are following suit. Some Australians fear that the natives are not ready for such freedom and should remain wards of the government. Says Western Australia's Native Welfare Minister Edgar Lewis: "Some people think there will be orgies and riots, but I am sure it won't happen...