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...claim to be called an American classic than The Show-Off. This season's second production of the APA Repertory Company (TIME, Dec. 8) opened in 1924, had 674 performances on Broadway, and has suffered countless amateur versions. It was filmed three times (with Gregory Kelly in 1926, Spencer Tracy in 1934, Red Skelton in 1947). And it was written by the grand old man of the U.S. stage, George Kelly, 80, actor, director, and uncle of the Princess of Monaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Showing Off Miss H. | 12/15/1967 | See Source »

Married. Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, 45, Manhattan socialite daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, distant cousin of Winston Churchill; and Theodore Roubanis, 27, sometime actor, full-time playboy, and onetime companion of Actress Jeanne Moreau; she for the third time; in Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 24, 1967 | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...Katharine Hepburn, 60. And for the rest of the interview, young Katharine sat awed as auntie discoursed on Novocain-free dentistry ("A little pain builds your character"), her campaign cap ("I was in the Confederate army"), and the acting simplicity of her late, longtime co-star Spencer Tracy ("a baked potato"). Not quite forgetting the purpose of the conference, Hepburn did offer a few professional words about her remarkably look-alike niece, who makes her movie debut in the last movie Hepburn and Tracy made together: a comedy called Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. "For her a smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 3, 1967 | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...that women able to pay fees of $300 to $600 frantically seek illegal abortionists, who seem remarkably available (one middle-class East Coast wife asked five friends, got five names). About 75% of abortionists are doctors, some of them genuine humanitarians. Until he retired a while ago, Dr. Robert Spencer of Ashland, Pa., was considered a saint by thousands of Eastern college girls. Even the police sent him their wives. One New Jersey general practitioner performs 250 abortions a year in his spotless, two-nurse clinic. "Every day I tell myself, This is the last,' " he says. "And every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DESPERATE DILEMMA OF ABORTION | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

Sympathy from Romney. California embraced Medicaid early and enthusiastically but changed its name to Medi-Cal. Now it threatens to become Medi-Lo-Cal. In mid-August, California Health and Welfare Administrator Spencer Williams ordered a $210 million cut in Medi-Cal outlays to keep them within the state budget. Biggest cuts would have been in non-emergency surgery, length of hospital stay, drug bills and dental care. But a superior court judge declared the cutbacks illegal. Governor Reagan appealed, and the State Supreme Court is expected to hear the case in about a month. Meanwhile, Reagan has threatened those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDICARE: Expensive, Successful MEDICAID: Chaotic, Irrevocable | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

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