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...such Harvard playwright is senior John Farrell who has been working on his play "Seaview" for the past couple of years. This three-act work includes a trio of separate stories about personal relationships that occur at a seashore. The first act takes place at a cottage house in 1925 in Marshfield, the second at a bunker overlooking the invasion of Normandy in 1944, and the third at North Carolina's Nag's Head Beach in 1979. "The play follows the dramatic evolution of the same character of the same character type." Farrell explains, adding that the same actor will...
...their colleagues. But most would rather give up their stethoscopes than publicly compare the relative abilities of their fellow physicians. Now, though, an enterprising medical writer, John Pekkanen, has enticed hundreds of doctors to rate some of their own. His new book, The Best Doctors in the U.S. (Seaview Books; $10.95), lists 2,500 of the nation's top specialists, judged so by their peers...
Died. Joe Knowles, 73, briefly and widely famed "nature man" of three decades ago; in Seaview, Wash. Emptyhanded, naked except for a loincloth, he entered the Maine woods for a man-v.-nature tussle in 1913, emerged two months later wearing a bearskin, a beard, a splendid sun tan, to win national acclaim and a 20-week vaudeville contract. Later it turned out he had spent most of the time hiding in a cabin with a Boston ex-publicity man, who had written Knowles's "birchbark diary," sent it back to the Boston Post, which printed it regularly, thus...
Married. Julie Bradley Shipman, sixtyish, longtime fixture of Newport society; and John C. Fremont, 62, retired Navy captain, grandson of famed frontiersman General John C. ("The Pathfinder") Fremont; in Manhattan. Widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, she owns the palatial "Seaview Terrace," famed $1,000,000 Newport showplace (twice put on auction, once for taxes, twice withdrawn for lack of sizable bids...
...Slammin' Sam Snead: the match play championship of the Professional Golfers' Association, only national golf title attainable this year; defeating U.S. Army Corporal Jimmy Turnesa, youngest of the six Turnesa pros, 2 and 1 in the final; at the Seaview Country Club, near Atlantic City. Though Snead is considered the best shotmaker since Bobby Jones, this is his first national golf title. This week he enters the Navy...