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Died. Ruth Draper, 72, who dazzled New York and London audiences with her lavishly peopled monologues for more than 40 years, impersonated a Scottish immigrant, Maine swamp Yankees and rubbernecking American tourists with sympathetic satire; in her sleep, five days after she opened a four-week Broadway engagement; in Manhattan...
Such were Allen's tributes to vaudeville. But he loved it, despite its leeching managers and overnight hops, shoebox lunches and tank-town audiences. To him, it was a school of inventive self-reliance peopled with lovable oddballs. A gaudy branch of human botany, vaudeville finds in Fred Allen...
London peopled a whole world with semibarbarians-bucko mates on tramp steamers, sealers in the North Pacific. Seattle waterfront toughs, stiffs riding the rods of Western freight cars-all larger than life, and, because of that, something less than real. This scissors-and-paste collection of his work (with the...
The lecturer claimed that the rights of the Turkish minority on Cyprus, peopled largely by Greeks, would be respected if freedom were granted. He excused the murder of Cypriots not desiring self-determination by citing the bad treatment given those who disagreed in early English struggles for freedom.
A soldier who fought the Germans in two wars, spent five years in their prison camps and another three commanding a regiment in the postwar German occupation, General Bolle got plenipotentiary powers and was answerable to nobody in his new job. He swore in a 37-man civil service, including...