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...that many TV news directors today would dare tell a young woman what her first boss told her: the station already had its quota of one woman reporter. But it rankles that many people confuse her with her NBC colleague Jessica Savitch, with CBS's Stahl and Diane Sawyer and with ABC'S Catherine Mackin, apparently because all are blond. Indeed, President Reagan once addressed Stahl as "Judy" at a press conference. Says Woodruff: "I do not notice many people confusing Roger Mudd and Tom Brokaw." Moreover, she fears that aging will curtail her career: "Men gain credibility...
Paul Engle, poet and founder of the University of Iowa writers' program: Moby Dick, "because the prose is equal to the theme"; Tom Sawyer; the poems of John Donne; the plays of Shakespeare; the King James Bible, because "the language is equal to the great theme." Engle, 74, has further observations: "The most important and profoundly felt thing is that to my surprise I come to the end of my Life convinced that love is indeed possible in a basically unlovely world. It seems to me love is not only possible, but it is the ultimate reason for life...
...American Shakespeare Theatre is now presenting Hamlet for the fourth time in its history. In 1958 Fritz Weaver gasped and wheezed his way through an only moderately cut text, with a running-time of three hours and a quarter. In 1964 Tom Sawyer made an admirable stab at the role in a version with a playing time of two hours and three quarters...
Tousled-haired and grinning diffidently, Beaver is a 20th century Tom Sawyer. Able to resist anything but temptation, he is a dimpled noble savage who regards parents as gentle adversaries to be outwitted for their own good. He is a cultural icon for the baby-boom generation, the symbol of the apple-pie joys and melted ice-cream sorrows of an idyllic suburban childhood that never really was. After a successful six-year run, Beaver went off network television in 1963, but it continued to flicker on the mental screens of a generation...
Watson being a Stanford man, Pebble Beach on northern California's shiny Monterey peninsula was a natural setting of his dreams. But the Open was an annual occasion for his nightmares. In 1974 freckled Tom Sawyer-Watson, 24, from Kansas City, led the Open at Winged Foot, Mamaroneck, N.Y., at the end of three rounds but then faltered miserably...