Word: merlis
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...Stage, radio and film: all were canap?s for the voracious man-child. Consider these three triumphs. In 1937, at 22, Welles and his Mer-cury Theatre had vitalized the New York stage with a "voodoo" " Macbeth," a "fascist" "Julius Caesar" and the agit-prop musical "The Cradle With Rock" - the last a sensation when the sponsoring WPA denied it a venue and Welles marched his company and the first-nighters to another theater, where the actors per-formed the show from the audience. In 1938, he elevated radio drama by bringing the Mercury Theatre to the air and, on October...
...Throughout his career, whether his plate was heaping or bare, Welles was notoriously late. (In his closing comments for the Mer-cury?s radio version of "Around the World in Eighty Days," Welles sheepishly or puckishly describes himself as "one of the least punctual of mortals ... who can?t read time tables, wind watches or get out of bed.") In "Theatre of the Imagination," an engrossing radio tribute on the 50th anniversary of the Mercury ra-dio program, Richard Wilson says he can?t remember a Mercury play that opened on schedule. "Radio was the only medium that imposed...
Three men, six interlocking hands, one mother of a steel company. That's the image Jos? Ram?n Alvarez Rendueles, Joseph Kinsch and Francis Mer presented in Brussels last week when they announced that the three companies they manage-Spain's Aceralia, Luxembourg's Arbed and France's Usinor-were forging one $30 billion-a-year monster that will crank out 46 million tons of steel in 2002. The new company, which has yet to be named, will be the world's largest, dwarfing the previous No. 1, Japan's Nippon Steel, which turned out 28 million tons last year...
...long time, and there is a lot of trust built up." All three companies have managed to make money in difficult times by keeping raw material costs down and focusing on the kinds of high-grade finished products that the auto and appliance industries prefer. Kinsch and Mer will act as co-chairmen...
DIED. CHARLES TRENET, 87, French crooner considered a master of la chanson francaise; in Creteil, France. Beloved for his mischievous charm and paeans to everyday life, his most famous song, La Mer (popularized in the U.S. by Bobby Darin as Beyond the Sea), has been recorded nearly 4,000 times...