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Died. Hyman Kraft, 76, playwright and author; of complications arising from injuries suffered when he was struck by a bicycle; in Manhattan. Kraft wrote his first play at 33, later collaborated with Theodore Dreiser on the screenplay for An American Tragedy and became a journeyman playwright of comedies and musicals, among them Café Crown and Top Banana, a caustic, dizzy homage to comedy that Phil Silvers made into...
Nothing in his background as a journeyman Middle Western politician prepared him for the kind of decisions he had to make in the White House. Yet he made those choices, without swagger or rhetoric. (It is typical that he called his Administration the Fair Deal. Not Great. Not Big. Just Fair.) Without that extraordinary scheme for giving, the Marshall Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal...
Died. Larry Parks, 60, journeyman film actor who became a celebrated casualty of McCarthy-era antiCommunism; of a heart attack; in Studio City, Calif. A B-movie player in the early 1940s, Parks' fortunes rose sharply after his brilliant performance as Singer Al Jolson in the 1946 hit The Jolson Story, which earned Columbia Pictures more than $8 million and brought him several more starring roles. But his career was shattered in 1951 when he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating Communist influence in Hollywood. Parks became the first of dozens of actors...
Catering Advisory. Though he used to come across as more showman than chef, Graham Kerr has a lifelong journeyman's background in the delectation of diners. Son of a London hotelkeeper, he started helping in the kitchen at six, studied hotel management in England, ran a 15th century coaching inn with his actress-wife Treena (now his producer), then moved Down Under, where he served as chief catering adviser for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He later began extolling eating on radio and TV, first in Australia and then in Canada. He now teaches at Cornell University...
...would be the grossest distortion to pretend that editorial cartoonists are all Goyas in a hurry. Nothing inspires bromides like a deadline. Artists against the clock have too often relied on labels and fatigued metaphors to make their point. Back in 1925, The New Yorker lampooned the journeyman cartoonist with his crayoned clichés: the literalized Sea of Public Indignation; the bearded Radical; the masked thief with his tag of Crime Wave; the debt-ridden Commuter...