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...inspired more than 100 books, including three essential studies this year: Mel Gussow's Conversations with and About Beckett (Grove Press) and two biographies--Lois Gordon's The World of Samuel Beckett, 1906-1946 (Yale University Press) and an authorized life, Damned to Fame, by Beckett scholar James Knowlson (due in October from Simon & Schuster). Knowlson's book is reverent, exhaustive--3,361 footnotes!--and full of fine detail on Beckett's dogged, monastic creativity. If anyone could know this private man, Knowlson does. And tells...
...went home thereafter only to see his family, especially his mother May, whose lingering death from Parkinson's disease touched him as he stared into her pained eyes. "These are the first eyes I think I truly see," he wrote to a friend, in a letter cited in Knowlson's biography. "I do not need to see others; there is enough there to make one love and weep...
...Gussow's book the Irish actor Jack MacGowran says Beckett's subject was "human distress, not human despair." In fact, the Gate Theatre season--surely, in its scope, power and wit, this year's great theatrical event--proves that Beckett's subject was human beings. And Knowlson's biography proves that Beckett was one of them...
...worked his way up to vice president and general manager. During World War II, he headed the European division of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, won U.S. and British decorations for pioneering new weapons and equipment. At Stewart-Warner, Archambault succeeds James S. Knowlson, 70, who continues as board chairman...
...quarter); appliance makers planned to cut production 25%; TV makers were cutting about 15%. The cuts had already brought manpower dislocations: thousands of skilled workers had been laid off civilian jobs-and had no war jobs to go to. Said Stewart-Warner's white-thatched Chairman & President James Knowlson: "Business doesn't worry about being converted to war production. It only worries about being liquidated in the process...