Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk this over? Okay? Come on now, let's shake hands." But the Milton Mother would not shake hands. And all the people in the corridor outside the Transportation Committee Room were watching, and Big Ed McLaughlin--who had spent nearly ten years here on the Hill as Dorchester's Representative, defending people like the Milton Mother--was very, very embarrassed...
...final factor is Ted Kennedy. The men on the Hill resent his quick rise to power, his avoidance of the state Party, and his identification with the Yankees rather than the Irish. Ted would naturally seem able to use his influence as a U.S. Senator to help get the Library built. In fact he has no influence on Beacon Hill...
...even with all this help, the Library Corporation has bungled the job. The reason is that it has tried to keep the issue apolitical. No single representative at the State House is pushing the bill. Like other legislators, the men on Beacon Hill play the quid-pro-quo game. The Kennedy Library has little to offer anyone, so it gets no favors in return...
British Author Hunter Davies recently sold the U.S. publishing rights to his forthcoming biography The Beatles to McGraw-Hill for $150,000. Harold Robbins gets $500,000 in advance for every novel he dictates. Kathleen Winsor (Forever Amber) got $500,000 from New American Library for the paperback rights to her 1965 slow-selling novel Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West. Norman Mailer's contract with the same publisher guarantees him $450,000 apiece for his next two novels-plus a possible bonus...
Part of the problem is the translation, a terrible wooden thing by Lucienne Hill that would make any character in a play seem like, well, a character in a play. Part of the problem is the traditional tiny house at the traditional Thursday night opening. No cast can as one actor astutely adlibbed, "turn 25 or 50 individuals into one single attentive being." The figure Anouilh had written was "seven or eight hundred...