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...Drown. By 1912 the suffrage movement was almost respectable, despite such zealots as Lida Stokes Adams, who demanded women's right to drown. The lifeboats of the Titanic, she insisted, should have been filled "with an equal number of men." A mammoth suffrage parade down Fifth Avenue, with Lillian Russell and 15,000 other marchers impressed the nation and won large-scale public sympathy. After that, bloomer-clad suffragettes paraded in front of the White House, pinned jonquils on the lapels of sympathetic Congressmen. Theo dore Roosevelt endorsed the cause, and in 1918 Woodrow Wilson surrendered, urged Congress...
...roll idol's pompadour; Fiorello!, a sunny salute to New York City's late Mayor La Guardia; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in jazz time. Among the straight dramas still pulling customers from the hot pavements are Toys in the Attic, in which Lillian Hellman pits poor Jason
...Elvis-type monster; Fiorello!, a more fun- than smoke-filled memoir of New York City's late embattled mayor; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in a brilliantly choreographed Manhattan rumble. Among the dramatic works, the midsummer's night cream includes Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's corrosive piece concerning a weakling whose old-maid sisters depend on his dependence; The Tenth Man, ancient Jewish exorcism strikingly put to work on modern neurosis; and The Miracle Worker, featuring extraordinary performances by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher...
...Elvis-type monster; Fiorello!, a more fun-than smoke-filled memoir of New York City's late mayor; and West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet in a brilliantly choreographed Manhattan rumble. Among the dramatic works, the midsummer's night cream includes Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's corrosive piece about a weakling whose old-maid sisters depend on his dependence; and The Tenth Man, ancient Jewish exorcism strikingly put to work on modern neurosis...
...that was shocking." By 1951 the girl had herself become a top physician in the fight on epilepsy, and Dr. Lennox could report that "with new methods and medicines, three-fourths of the sufferers can be relieved of three-fourths of their seizures, and many are completely relieved." Died. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, 80, one of the original boss ladies of U.S. business, longtime president of cosmetics maker Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc., who took over on the death of her first husband (Vincent B. Thomas) in 1918, became in 1937 the nation's highest-paid ($100,000) woman executive...