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...Guyon Hartwell Knight III New York City...
John Shivery Knight III was a young man with a future. At 30, he was special-projects editor of an afternoon tabloid, the Philadelphia Daily News. He had a $1,050-a-month apartment in a large building on Philadelphia's fashionable Rittenhouse Square and an art collection worth about $100,000. As a respected reporter for the Detroit Free Press, he had won an American Bar Association award. Most important, he was the millionaire grandson and a presumed heir of John S. Knight, 81, founder of the Knight-Rider Newspapers Inc., the chain that includes some 35 daily...
...family is right out of The Grapes of Wrath," Knight says. She was raised in the tiny town of Mitchell, Kans. Shirley Enola got her early education in a one-room schoolhouse. Her Oklahoma-born father was the only one in his family to finish grade school, but unlike Pa Joad of Steinbeck's novel, he finally made it big−in oil. Shirley is proud: "He supports everybody in sight now. He has two Lincoln Continentals and a mobile home parked in his driveway...
Gusty Emotions. As a child, she spent Saturday afternoons listening to Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. She decided to become a singer. "When I was ten, Horace Heidt held an amateur talent show in Lyons," Knight recalls. "My mother bought me a new dress from Sears for the show." Shirley sang In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, but her younger sister Gloria won the contest with a rendition of On a Slow Boat to China. Says Shirley: "I cried...
...acting is what I do best." The Hopkins family now lives in suburban Chappaqua, N.Y. Her next role, as a woman who becomes sexually involved with another woman, has been written for her by her husband. The practical side of Shirley might find it a bit discomfiting. The professional Knight can't wait. Says she: "I want to do work that takes chances...