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...Commission chaired by Edmund Muskie, a liberal with a strong reputation for integrity--examines formal complaints that the company is not adhering to World Health Organization (WHO) codes, hears arguments from both sides, and issues formal decisions. The Commission's power to enforce its judgments is nil. It relies solely on company cooperation and its to pressure the company through publicity...
Kennedy had his obvious accomplishments. Merely by arriving at the White House, he had destroyed forever one religious issue in American politics. When Edmund Muskie ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, his Catholicism was only a minor biographical detail. Kennedy presided over a change of political generations in America, and did it with brilliant style. He brought youth and idealism and accomplishment and elan and a sometimes boorish and clannish elitism to Washington. He refreshed the town with a conviction that the world could be changed, that the improvisational intelligence could do wonderful things. Such almost ruthless optimism...
Dying is easy," said Actor Edmund Gwenn at the end of his life. "Comedy is difficult." Perhaps that is why so many writers shun the genre. But there is a more salient reason. As Woody Allen sadly observes, "When you do comedy, you are not sitting at the grownups' table...
...EDMUND KEAN by Raymund FitzSimons...
...year guest appearance on this planet, Edmund Kean embodied everything that is exciting and treacherous about star quality. The most magnetic actor of the 19th century became as notorious for his drinking and whoring as he was praised for turning Macbeth and Shylock into matinee idols. During his last performance, Kean collapsed into the arms of his actor son and murmured, "I am dying-speak to them for me." When he died seven weeks later, the star legend was fulfilled. Jacqueline Susann could not have written it better...