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...this reductio ad absurdum. Especially good is Robert Ronan as a Ptydepe instructor lecturing a class on interjections: " 'Psst!' becomes 'cetudap,' 'mmnn' becomes 'vamyl,' the poetic 'oh!' is rendered in Ptydepe by 'hrulugyp.' Our very important 'hurrah!' becomes in Ptydepe 'frnygko jefr dabux altep dy sa-varub goz terexes...
Died Edwin O'Connor, 49, author of 1956's bestselling The Last Hurrah, a fictionalized account of the life of Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley; of a heart attack; in Boston. "A pale carbon copy," hooted Curley when the book came out. Carbon maybe, but pale never, as critics cheered ( nor's fascinating account of the last campaign of the boss of a big-city machine. The book sold over 125,000 copies the first year, went on to become a hit movie, and made O'Connor a fortune He wrote several other books...
...been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush, Oh Men! Oh Women!) but almost none of the usual Hollywood hurrah. Her road to fame in Peyton Place: a man-weary divorcee trying to bring up teen-aged daughter Tippy Walker...
Holdovers from the 1965-66 season include smash musicals-Fiddler on the Roof, Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and Man of La Mancha-plus one comedy, the Gallic sex farce, Cactus Flower. Jean-Claude van Itallie's America Hurrah meanwhile continues to provide intellectual and dramatic stimulation off-Broadway...
Choate, who was for years the paper's publisher, was right out of the old school of Boston newspaper publishing. Some say he was the model for Amos Force, the crusty, vengeful newspaper publisher in Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah. Choate's vision of the role of the Herald and the Traveler in Boston would never have allowed him to cease so arbitrarily the publication of one or the other. But Akerson is a businessman, not a visionary, and for him the profit and loss sheet determines the length of a paper's life. The Traveler, whatever...