Word: kevin
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That fact has not daunted Kevin Cash, 49, a Manchester native who has worked as a reporter and rewrite man at one time or another on a dozen or so newspapers, including Loeb's own Union Leader. Cash has written and published a devastating 472-page biography of his old boss entitled Who the Hell IS William Loeb?(Amoskeag Press, $8.95; paperbound...
...Philip Kenney, vicar of community affairs for the ManChester diocese. "A lot of people who have been duped by him should read this book." Adds former New Hampshire Governor Walter Peterson, whose teenage daughter suffered an emotional breakdown after Loeb vilified her for an innocent remark about marijuana use: "Kevin Cash has performed a significant public service...
...Union Leader has refused to run advertisements for the biography. It is no secret around New Hampshire that Cash once had a drinking problem and was dismissed by the Union Leader in 1959. "Nobody ever drank more than Kevin-he was a real newspaperman," says Jimmy Breslin, an old colleague from Cash's Herald Tribune days, who encouraged him in the project. Cash readily admits that he was fired-for showing up drunk to cover a golf match -but swears he has not had a drink in two years. Says he: "I gave up everything for this. I thought...
...conceivable dramatic calorie count, the plot courts starvation. The setting is a drafty, government-sponsored art studio, a cross between a ratty garret and an army barracks. Several young men and women of working-class origin drift in. Their teacher, Allott (Kevin Conway), has come earlier, as has Stella (Veronica Castang), the nude model. As the students stand at their sketch boards, it is quickly apparent that they are wholly inept and could not tell Degas from dandruff. They are whiling away the days on a subsidized boondoggle, and for them art is what Writer Rose Macaulay once said...
Because Allott's role is an in-depth version of the central figure of Butley, which appeared on Broadway two years ago, and since Britain's Alan Bates played both roles with scapular authority, one fears for Kevin Conway even as one scrutinizes him. But he is up to his hazardous task. As an actor, he is not a flashy water-skier splashing off extraneous effects but a deep-sea diver of strenuous gravity who comes up with the pearl of truth...