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...youth, plays her interview like Dame Edith Evans doing a scene from Oscar Wilde ("You know, I don't really appreciate the Virgin Mary. She always looks so dull"). West is mischievously iconoclastic about famous authors as only one who has rubbed elbows with them can be. Shaw's was "a poor mind, I think"; Maugham "couldn't write for toffee, bless his heart...
...pleasurable, and, literally, so irresponsible. It is a walk on the wild side, but a walking tour only; a desire to see and feel and even judge, and then leave. To stay-i.e., to be serious-is to miss the point. "A perpetual holiday," said George Bernard Shaw, "is a good working definition of hell." Getting home isn't half the fun. It's all of it. -By Charles Krauthammer
DIED. Estelle Winwood, 101, fey, indefatigable slip of a British character actress who in an eight-decade career appeared on Broadway in some 40 plays, especially those of G.B. Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward, and a score of movies, including The Glass Slipper (1955) and Murder by Death (1976); in Los Angeles...
...unaltered in format, for all 61 years of the magazine's existence. That department is Milestones, essentially the compilation of births, marriages, divorces and deaths that have national or international significance. The first Milestones section, appearing in the March 3, 1923, issue, listed seven deaths. Among them: Thomas Shaw, the last survivor of the 1854 charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War; Mary Logan, who conceived the idea of Memorial Day; and an Indian widow who committed suttee on the funeral pyre of her husband...
...Opus vision is immensely attractive to traditionalist Catholics with a strong sense of the church's mission. One well-known supernumerary is Russell Shaw, 49, public-affairs secretary of the U.S. Catholic Conference. After his son went to an Opus camp, Shaw decided to attend retreats with a friend. "What I like about the organization is its seriousness," says Shaw. "If you're not committed 100%, you're in the wrong outfit." Numerary Joseph Billmeier, who directs the Opus center in Milwaukee, says that Opus kept him on "an even keel" during his New York stockbroker days...