Word: holte
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DIED. George William ("Fritz") Holt III, 46, co-producer of the Broadway smash La Cage aux Folles (now in its fourth year) and the 1974 revival of Gypsy; of complications from pneumonia; in Montclair, N.J. Holt also staged last month's 100th birthday salute to Showman George Abbott...
...took every stroke as if it were the strokethat would make us win, and we rowed throughthem," seven seat Tina Holt said...
Walesa spent a year writing the book, which has sparked a heated publishing dispute. The manuscript was smuggled from Poland to the French publisher Editions Fayard after the New York City-based firm of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, which had initiated the project, asked for extensive revisions. The book, explained a Holt editor, lacked the "authentic voice" of Walesa. That did not stop Fayard, which translated the text into French and secreted it back to Walesa and his aides for approval. So far, Warsaw officials have not commented on the book, which is certain to burn up Poland's underground publishing...
...many tears are shed when Clifton Holt, artistic director of the National Ballet Company, is stabbed to death by a drug addict. His dancers had regarded him as a martinet, and his board of directors as a threat to their social ambitions. But what appears to be one more senseless Manhattan murder takes an abrupt turn when the killer is himself killed in prison after bragging that he was paid $24,000 for the Holt job. "Damn," says Reuben Frost, "will all this be in the papers?" Not a chance. For Frost, retired Wall Street lawyer and the dance company...
...FOOTNOTE: *Reprinted from The Poetry of Robert Frost by permission of Henry Holt...