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...began writing her warm, human novel about life in a small Ohio town as a response to Sinclair Lewis' acerbic Main Street. That was in the late 1920s. But for Helen Hooven Santmyer, 88, the 1982 publication by Ohio State University Press of her 1,344-page opus, . . . And the Ladies of the Club, was only the first chapter in a success story. Last week G.P. Putnam's Sons announced plans to reprint 50,000 hardback copies of her novel by August, and the Book-of-the-Month Club has chosen it as a main selection. Meanwhile Santmyer...
...Helen M. Cardan Lakeport, Calif...
...actresses who have played Amanda, from Laurette Taylor to Gertrude Lawrence to Helen Hayes, Shirley Booth, Maureen Stapleton and Katharine Hepburn, none brings more impressive credentials to the role than Jessica Tandy. In 1947, she was the first Blanche Dubois; now, at 74, she is playing Williams' first great cracked Southern belle. A generation too old for the part, she strides through the play on the assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some...
...recent overwhelming white support for the constitution indicates that as Helen Suzman put it the constitution safeguards apartheid and not future change. The mentality of many through not all whites is well portrayed in the play "Master Harold and the Boys...
...city and servicing health needs ranging from gynecology to nutrition, similar close relationships develop between doctors and patients. Patients have been known to follow a doctor or nurse practitioner across Cambridge when he or she transfers to another clinic or practice "You really get to know people," says Helen Cappello, a nurse practitioner, adding that she has "patients that I wouldn't hesitate calling it they missed an appointment...