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...father, an oil-refinery worker and part-time jazz musician. Before winning a Naumburg Foundation Award and a contract with the New York City Opera Company a year ago, Clamma, a Juilliard graduate, taught music and the poetry of Goethe and Schiller to prisoners on New York's Riker's Island. She hopes to play such operatic rolls as Margherita in Mefistofele and straight dramatic parts like Nora in A Doll's House...
...Inside a Riker's Island Prison theater in New York City last week, the players were setting up on stage. The audience entered in rowdy chaos-175 women, mostly black and Puerto Rican, dressed in sleeveless, hemless shifts, and monitored by hefty black female guards in starchy white shirts. A loudspeaker voice cut through the clamor to introduce the program: "'The Family' started behind the walls and it is now functioning outside the wall. And every member is a professional. Today we will see Straight from the Ghetto...
...piecemeal, until today there are only a dozen left. In 1947, Justin Dart advanced $7,000 out of his own pocket to a doctor who was working on a preparation to suppress high blood pressure; the drug turned into a steady though small seller and started Dart Industries' Riker Laboratories ethical-drug operation. But in 1970, he sold Riker Laboratories to the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for 3M stock worth a handsome $150 million. Dart has since sold most of the stock for a profit-$10 million in 1972 alone...
...effort to make a sale. The chain's moderately priced restaurants, like Mamma Leone's and La Fonda del Sol, have experienced a decline in the numbers of pre-theater diners because of a downturn in family entertaining. Lower-priced restaurants, like Zum Zum and Riker's, find business stronger than ever-because everyone is trying to save money...
...Nader stage of auto-erotica: a chronological arrangement of 100 carefully detailed 10½-in. by 13¼-in. color renderings of such classic cream puffs as the 1853 Dudgeon Steam Wagon, the 1898 Riker Electric Tricycle and the 1903 Oldsmobile Curved Dash Runabout...