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Warner LeRoy was raised in a world of in-house fantasy. He was five when his father, the redoubtable producer-director Mervyn LeRoy. dispatched Dorothy and Toto down that yellow brick road to see the Wizard. He is also the grandson and namesake of Harry Warner, founder of Warner Bros. By dual seignorial right, he grew up in the studios and back lots of Hollywood. "I had the whole world there," LeRoy recalls. "I could go around the corner and be in Singapore. Around another corner I was in Paris, and around another in the Land...
...People must lower their expectations." Said California Assemblyman Willie Brown, who drives a sporty Porsche: "My expectations have not been lowered. I still want my Turbo Carrera"-a reference to a supercharged GT model with a $25,850 price tag. Nonetheless, Jerry drew cheers again when he pointed at Mervyn Dymally, California's black Lieutenant Governor, and shouted: "If I go to Washington, he goes to Sacramento. If I'm elected President, I will appoint the first black Governor in the United States." Unfortunately, the Governor was off on both his authority and his history. If Brown...
...Blacks continued their advance into and up the political ranks. By 574 votes, Tennessee Democrat Harold E. Ford, 29, upset Republican Congressman Dan Kuykendall, bringing the number of blacks in the House of Representatives to 17. In Colorado, Democrat George Brown was elected Lieutenant Governor, and State Senator Mervyn Dymally gained the same post in California-the first blacks to win that office in any state since Reconstruction. Most impressive, however, was the hold blacks maintained on elective offices they already occupy and the dramatic increase of black officials in the South. Across the nation, nearly all black state legislators...
Warner LeRoy was four years old when his father Mervyn produced the movie The Wizard of Oz. Ever since, Warner's life has been filled with dreams and a need for the spectacular, and indulging them has proved profitable. LeRoy's latest dream fulfillment is Great Adventure, a 1,500-acre amusement park that opened this month in New Jersey featuring 2,000 animals (including a herd of elephants), chariot races, and one of the world's highest Ferris wheels (150 ft.). LeRoy has already shouldered Hardwicke Companies Inc., a firm in which he is a major...
...Church Times, England's leading Anglican publication, praised Coggan as a man of "true evangelistic zeal and fervor" who was taking on a job that was "no bed of roses." Wrote Mervyn Stockwood, the liberal and nonconformist Bishop of Southwark, in the London Times: "I placed Donald Coggan at the top of the list. [He] is well aware of the problems that confront a generation that has been reared in a scientific era ... [He] is increasingly aware of the need for the church to concern itself with practical affairs." Others praised Coggan's efficiency and administrative abilities...