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...family drama. Awake and Sing! tells the almost deceptively simple story of Bessie Bogo, a lower middle class Jewish mother striving to propel her two children to economic success during a time when even survival is difficult. Her pretentions to respectability lead her to engineer a loveless marriage between her pregnant daughter and a hapless recent immigrant. Her relentless drive for upward mobility causes her to heartlessly disapprove of her son's love for a peniless orphan. Their struggles are played out with an important group of other stereotypical characters all used artfully by Odets. The grandfather Jacob counters Bessie...
...former Governor of North Carolina, and political observers in the Tarheel State expect him to launch his own bid for the statehouse before the decade is out. Hard-driving and talented, Hodges is chairman of the North Carolina National Bank, which he has helped propel from 65th to 25th largest in the U.S. (assets: $2.7 billion) in the last 14 years. A Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina and a Harvard Business School graduate, Hodges has never held a public elective office, but he has been active in such civic affairs as the state's manpower...
...receives legislative authority. For the moment, drivers are free to visit a string of gas stations, buying ten gallons at each one?if they can find enough open. But Simon also asked motorists to try to get along all week on ten gallons, a quantity barely sufficient to propel the average
...five minute lapse in defense during the second period allowed B.U.'s Bill Russell to pick up a hat trick with three consecutive goals to propel the Terriers to a 4-1 lead...
Ache All Over. That philosophy helped propel Ney, now 48, from account executive to chief of the agency's domestic branches in 1963 and president of its international division in 1968. Frequently, he visits half a dozen cities a week and calls on eight or ten clients, making a couple of speeches along the way and finding time to work for such groups as the National Urban League and the International Chamber of Commerce. When he is in New York City, he gets to the office by 7 a.m. A physical fitness enthusiast, Ney takes daily workouts...