Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year over a ten-year period, Dore Schary set his sights on Broadway, where in the late '203 and '303 he had been a bit actor and an unsuccessful playwright (only one production reached Broadway). "I had long felt there was a play in F.D.R.'s illness," he says. After long talks with the family and meticulous research, Playwright Schary first whipped off the last scene, in which Roosevelt doggedly humps himself to the rostrum on crutches to make the nomination speech, then tuned the rest of the play to that climax...
...York newspaper critics praised the play, and long lines of hopeful ticket buyers formed at the box office. But within the Roosevelt family, Schary's play drew mixed notices. Eleanor Roosevelt called it "an excellent play," but added: "I have no feeling of reality about it. It had no more to do with me than the man in the moon." Said Franklin Jr.: "It is a very accurate and true play...
...finally forced to move his family from Colver to his father's 300-acre farm near Belsano, Pa., where Black Lick Creek runs down the western slope of the Alleghenies. Young Willie did his share of farm chores, took the bus to Black Lick Township school, found time to play the drum in the school band, and got into enough extracurricular trouble to be a regular visitor at the principal's office. "I didn't like girls much then," says he, almost with surprise...
...listening to him, and I wanted a trip home, so I went and got the contract signed. On the way back I stopped at a dairy bar. I was looking at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and all of a sudden I see I'm named to ride Hal's Play the next...
...helped the Dodgers by just being around. He coached the rookies who were after his job, relaxed the bench with sly tales of his seven seasons of barnstorming through the hinterlands of Negro baseball. He never got over the fact that he was a grown man being paid to play a boy's game. "You know, I'll play for nothing if I have to," he once told a startled Dodger official during a contract session. "You can write in the numbers yourself...