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That happy circumstance has befallen Slab Boys, a burst of bitter memory from Scottish Playwright John Byrne about the hopeless nights and dreamless days of young men who grind dyes in the "slab room" of a carpet factory near Glasgow. When first produced in New York, off-Broadway in 1980, the play seemed a programmatic denunciation of the social order, as personified by two pompous functionaries and by a blazered young prig who was passing through the slab room on his foreordained...
...that owes more to plain human respect and less and less to pity. Washington's is not the only monument. Last week in downtown Chicago a commemorative fountain was dedicated, and in Vermont, Interstate 89 last month became Viet Nam Veterans Memorial Highway. On the courthouse lawn in Glasgow, Ky. (pop. 13,000), the brand new black granite marker is still awaiting the names of Barren County's two dozen Viet Nam dead...
Like many workers of his generation, Fraser has been a union man all his life. Born in a Glasgow, Scotland, tenement, he immigrated to the U.S. when he was six and later, like his father, went to work in a Detroit automobile plant. During the strong union years, Fraser helped win extensive benefits for his members. He won early-retirement pay for auto-workers in 1964 and safety and dental-care programs in 1973. Says a senior auto company official: "Fraser is a very bright, shrewd guy with a pretty good feel for his constituency...
...realm of celebrity endorsements, the face is none too memorable, and the delivery falls decidedly shy of, say, Olivier for Polaroid. But the name of the new pitchster for Café de Rio is familiar. It has been since 1963, when Ronald Biggs, 53, and 14 others relieved a Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in what will be forever referred to as the "Great Train Robbery." Resettled for the past dozen years in Brazil and exempt from extradition, Biggs was recently tapped by an Australian ad agency to play the Ricardo Montalban-Juan Valdez role...
Linda, the daughter of a vaudevillian who billed herself "Vera Love, Specialty Dancer" ("I'd be scared to ask her what 'specialty dancer' meant; it may have been something risque," Linda says), had grown up outside Glasgow and had never had a singing lesson or any overriding interest in the musical life. "I'm one of those idiots who will do what the man I'm involved with does," she says. "If Richard had been a bricklayer, I would have been a fantastic bricklayer." No question, she is a fantastic singer. Not trained, not technical...