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...dodger's wife, has lost 10 Ibs. Virtually all the cast have cuts, bruises or splinters to show for their pains, and Seale, 70, has developed bursitis in his knee. Whitehead sums up the experience by telling the story of a man who went to visit Edmund Gwenn as the vintage actor languished on his deathbed. "It must be hard, very hard, Ed," the friend offered. "It is," Gwenn replied. "But not as hard as farce." And not nearly as funny. -ByDenise Worrell...
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...
Sophomore miler MAUREEN GILDEA, and juniors GWENN GORMAN and PAM STONE were selected as the 1981-'82 swim captains at the squad's banquet Monday night at the European Restaurant in Boston's North End. Renowned for their gastronomic prowess, the swimmers lived up to their reputation as they downed unlimited quantities of pizza, chicken cacciatore, wine, and a specially-made pecan and chocolate buttercream cake... After the awarding of varsity and junior varsity letters and numbers, departing co-captains DEBBIE JACOBS and KATIE KELLEY gave out special honors to team members for their better splashes outside of the pool...
...third doubles, Meg Meyer and Leslie Miller captured the first set, squeaking by Maura Williams and Gwenn Light, 7-5, before dropping the second, 4-6. With the game score in the final set at six-all, the duo from Penn won a nine-point tiebreaker, 5-2, to win the contest and bring the match contest...
...Boston's 23 patrolwomen (out of a total force of 2601) got the nod to cover the Faneuil Hall beat for the meeting, where organizations such as the National Organization for Women and Woman Power Newsletter spent almost two hours skeptically questioning HEW's Gwenn Gregory about the new guidelines. The Boston police officer was right, you could count the number of men in the 300 occupied seats on your hands--and half of them were the camera crews for local television stations. But just in case there was any trouble the officer had assigned a big burly male sargeant...