Word: furth
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...show in the Ex, called “Company,” features music and lyrics by the venerable Stephen Sondheim of “West Side Story” fame.“Company” is a well-written show. Since Sondheim and his collaborator George Furth intentionally constructed an emotionally unavailable principal character, performing it can be a little risky. But regardless of the chances the directors may be taking with this complex, enigmatic musical—which is going up in the Ex during reading period—they have chosen what many Broadway lovers view...
...three in Birmingham, Ala., plans to have children early meant deciding to become a teacher rather than a doctor. "I'd be 30 before I was finished with medical school," she says. (She ended up leaving teaching with the birth of her second child.) Former fashion designer Daisy von Furth, 33, of Northampton, Mass., dropped her X-Girl clothing line after having her son Wolfie when she was 26. Von Furth is enjoying stay-at-home motherhood but says going back into the fashion business probably wouldn't be an option, even if she wanted to. "You've jumped...
...trial lawyers in the U.S. are living large. Texas tort king Joe Jamail is widely known as the world's richest lawyer, with a net worth of $1.2 billion. When Frederick Furth, a top San Francisco trial lawyer, isn't litigating antitrust cases, he is engaging his passion for wine at his 1,200-acre Chalk Hill vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif. Wayne Reaud (pronounced Ree-oh) has used his hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from asbestos and other "toxic tort" litigation to buy the local newspaper and a chunk of downtown real estate in his hometown...
...them are populists at heart. Reaud has a photograph in his office lobby of one of his heroes, firebrand United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis. Levin says one of his formative experiences was being part of the first racially integrated class at the University of Florida Law School. Furth, whose father was a union steelworker, is a fervent New Dealer who drives a Rolls-Royce with the license plate ROBEY ST. to remind him of his humble beginnings on the far South Side of Chicago...
...something changed in the '70s: the awards began to get a lot larger. In 1978 Jamail brought a case against Remington for defects in a gun that injured a man in a hunting accident. The $6.8 million settlement landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. Furth won his clients $70 million in 1973 on an antitrust price-fixing case against gypsum-wallboard manufacturers (and got a $4.3 million...