Word: friend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, complained loudly that the A.D. had taken the lion's share and that the U.R.D. deserved the governorship of the federal district, including Caracas, because in the election it won three times more votes there than the A.D. (But Betancourt gave the post to a nonpartisan friend...
Mamma Was Boss. So much of Anne Bancroft seems never to have left home that one friend still describes her as "a Girl Scout of The Bronx, leading Brownies through Palisades Park." Anne likes to disagree. "I get so tired of saying I was born in The Bronx," says she. But the continuing search for herself keeps taking her back to the series of low-rent apartments in the neighborhood of St. Peter's Avenue. "We were a typical Italian family," says Anne, "very lower middle class." Mamma was the boss. It was Mamma, working as a telephone operator...
Bronx to Broadway. The approaching maturity which Patty-and her agent-would dearly love to delay, is exactly what her backstage friend Anne Bancroft has been hunting down for years. At 28, Anne has progressed from The Bronx to Broadway, where the people she portrays still seem more meaningful and manageable than Anne Bancroft herself...
Anne keeps talking of marriage, but when she told her psychiatrist not long ago that she had put a piece of a friend's wedding cake under her pillow, he answered ironically: "At last you're taking active steps." Says she: "I don't know why, but I can't make a mature relationship based on trust, respect and recognition." She adds: "Most of Annie Sullivan is myself. It's my own blindness I draw on, my unawareness of myself...
While the plumpish, corseted blonde doled out details (she was a "friend" of the escapee, who had phoned her from Havana for money), the Herald put in a quick call to Miami International Airport. There, by luck, the paper had a man waiting for the next plane to Havana. What's more, Reporter James Coe Buchanan was just the man for the story. On previous Cuban assignments, he had hidden out with Castro rebels, filed eyewitness accounts of the bloody skirmishing. And last summer, when Castro troops trapped a tiny invasion force from the Dominican Republic, wiry, 43-year...