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...Roger Gilliatt-the best man at the wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. The Gilliatts split when she ran off with Playwright John Osborne (Look Back in Anger). After five years of volatile marriage, she and Osborne called it finis. She got custody of their only child, Nolan Kate. For a brief time she had a rather deep friendship with Critic-Impresario Kenneth Tynan (Oh! Calcutta!). The New Yorker, enchanted with her work, brought her Stateside to write their film critiques from April...
Gilliatt's abiding empathy illumines Sunday Bloody Sunday and roots her in America. Though her passport is British, she works nine months a year on Manhattan's West Side, where she and Nolan, six, share a large flat. One of her favorite recreations is solitary word games-she has concocted one of the world's longest palindromes: "Doc, note. I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod." Now that Sunday Bloody Sunday has opened to ecstatic notices in London, she is in the act of turning down offers from producers who once thought...
...proposed by the Dallas school district. After the Supreme Court decision, one educated estimate was that the Dallas district would eventually have to spend $6,000,000 on as many as 500 new buses. Labeling that alternative too time-consuming and expensive, the district advanced what Dallas School Superintendent Nolan Estes blithely described as the "educational innovation of the decade": a $15 million television network that will connect classes between elementary schools in largely segregated neighborhoods...
...them leave home, mostly for Europe and America, and even today a large percentage of the best-known Australians are expatriates. Among them: Soprano Joan Sutherland, Dancer Robert Helpmann, Actress Zoe Caldwell, Actors Leo McKern and Rod Taylor, Writers Morris West and Alan Moorehead, Artist Sidney Nolan...
...tradition in Cincinnati. The trouble has always been pitching-except for this year. A couple of trades brought in two American League veterans: Jim Merritt from the Minnesota Twins and Jim McGlothlin from the California Angels. Together they have won 28 games. A pair of home-grown youngsters, Gary Nolan, 22, and Wayne Simpson, 21, have added another 29 victories...