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Childhood by Rockwell. Now 37, Jean Kerr was once Bridget Jean Collins of Scranton, Pa., the first of four children of a construction foreman who had emigrated from Ireland to find a career in the New World so that he could send back to County Cork for his sweetheart, Kitty O'Neill. Kitty, second cousin of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, is better known to readers of The Snake Has All the Lines as "My Wild Irish Mother," a woman with an unquenchable sense of humor. "After all the money I've sunk in bronchitis," she said recently...
...seldom went out, and had an aversion to all but the tallest boys. "They had to be ready for Ringling's," she recalls. At Marywood, she dabbled in dramatics, played the mother superior in The Kingdom of God. During her sophomore year, Walter Francis Kerr came to Scranton to see a student performance of Romeo and Juliet. Jean was the stage manager. He was 5 ft. 8 in. and pushing 30, but soon she was telling her mother, with a gesture toward her eyes: "The only height that matters is from here...
...mothers forced them to go on taking lessons. Each has something reasonably unique, however slight. At 55th Street's Gaudeamus, tourists go for the foam-rubber padding along the edge of the bar, presumably there to protect them if the bar crashes. The best belly dancing east of Scranton, Pa. goes on in the Egyptian Gardens on West 29th Street. The African Room is full of thatch, fronds, voodoo masks, a men's room called Tarzan and a ladies' room labeled Jane...
...city level, Scranton has come up with one of the most imaginative programs. Hit by a cut in mining workers from 17.910 in 1940 to about 2,200 this year, Scranton set out to attract new employers by offering to build them a modern factory to meet their specifications. The city paid for all construction, charged the company only rent. The plan was first financed by the sale of municipal bonds, but the public has chipped in willingly with outright donations to keep the fund going. About 30 community-financed plants have been built at a cost of nearly...
...solely on industrial plants, many communities now realize that their biggest hope is to create or attract more service industries. Pennsylvania's service industry employment has steadily increased, jumped from 79,000 in 1950 to 103,900 this year. By attracting enough factories to employ 10,000 people, Scranton figured that it created 17,000 additional jobs in the service industries, retail businesses and professions. One reason: an average of three people leave the relief rolls for every new job created, thus increasing the market for services...