Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Should Beth die in the upcoming LB one-hour musical version of Little Women? "Absolutely not," said Composer-Lyricist Richard Adler. When Louisa May Alcott finished the last paragraph of her classic he said, Beth was still breathing. Her creator, Adler argued, killed Beth m the book's sequel, Little Women, Part II. Come October, Beth (played by Margaret O'Brien) will live...
...been a long time coming. Though his work now hangs in ten top U.S. museums, he has long been more a favorite with painters than with the public. But Avery. a mild-mannered, soft-spoken man with cornflower-blue eyes, has always stood outside art movements. "I'm pretty hard to catalogue," he says...
...backfire embarrassingly-as the Miami News (circ. 137,598) once discovered when, in the midst of a crusade against gamblers, it recommended a city council candidate who turned out to be a convicted bookie. Last year, when crew-cut Columnist William C. Baggs, 37, became editor of James M. Cox Jr.'s News, he reserved the right to name the candidates the paper would support. Baggs set up a six-man editorial board to grill candidates in off-the-record sessions. As Florida's Democratic primary campaign drew to a close this week, the result of Baggs...
...tighten credit by sopping up the extra funds and permitting its banks to boost their discount rates. For the debacle in bonds, whether brought on by fumbles by the Treasury or the surprisingly quick turnabout in the economy, the Treasury is being bitterly blamed. Said Armand Erpf of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.: "I suppose the loss of several billions of dollars in bond values is the price we have to pay to break in a new-Secretary of the Treasury...
Born. To George M. Leader, 40, Democratic Governor of Pennsylvania, and Mary Leader, 39: their third son, fourth child; in Harrisburg, Pa. Name: David Charles. Weight...