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...Egghead is almost always interesting and with Karl Maiden and Lloyd Richards as the Liberal and the Communist, rewardingly well acted. Again and again it vitalizes the issues at the same time that-with small talk and small children, dinner-party fiascos and marital spats-it humanizes the atmosphere. What it does not do-what a message play so seldom can do-is to create flesh-and-blood characters who really seem to shape and chart their own lives...
...left out one of my names, my middle name to be exact, when you were kind enough to include me as a good friend of Althea's. Actually, I was named after my great aunt, Sarah Hammond Palfrey who lived for over 90 years and remained a maiden lady...
...even seeming to breathe hard. She studied illustration as a girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled to paint some more. Meanwhile, her son Frederick Wight (Stallknecht is her maiden name) had become a proficient painter and art critic (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956). Young Wight encouraged her to paint, yet was amazed when she embarked on a masterly series of religious pictures drawn directly from the life and the people about...
...agents, a truck owner who employed Teamsters, and Teamster officials. He rarely paid interest, signed notes or offered collateral. In most cases there was no evidence that the payments to Hoffa actually were loans. ¶ A Hoffa acquaintance set up Test Fleet Corp., a truck-leasing firm, in the maiden names of Hoffa's wife (Josephine Poszywak) and the wife of his pal, Owen Bert Brennan (Alice Johnson). Test Fleet got its trucks through the good offices of a Detroit trucking firm, Commercial Carriers, Inc., which then leased the equipment back from Test Fleet. The wives invested only...
...Eugene James $2,000 or $2,500 to start operations of a Detroit jukebox local; in return, "Jimmie" James, later accused by a Senate investigation committee of stealing $900,000 from a welfare fund, put Hoffa's and Brennan's wives on the union payroll (using their maiden names), paid them about...