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...That was a splendid story on Yorty and our great city. As a former New Yorker, may I say that the difference between Watts and Harlem is the difference between limbo and hell. If Yorty is given half a chance, Watts may become a heaven, like the rest of our wonderful city...
...were eleven in the party, including 16-year-old Son Craig and 22-year-old Daughter Kathleen. By dawn they were on the peak, admiring the panorama of Washington's Cascade Range stretched out below. "For a man who spends his life behind a desk, it was a splendid performance," said Mount Everest Hero Jim Whittaker. "If he hadn't injured his ankle, we would have had trouble keeping up with...
...Thank you for the splendid coverage of the London crusade [June 10, July 15]. The reporting was extremely fair and accurate. I am convinced that this crusade made the deepest penetration of any of the crusades we have ever conducted anywhere. It may take a generation to analyze the full impact...
...Time for Ultimatums. Luckier than most widows with two children (Stephen, now 17 and Leslie, 13) can hope to be, she met and married Jason Robards, a splendid actor and the most sensitive interpreter of O'Neill characters on the U.S. stage. A few years ago, while not yet middleaged, she found herself drifting into the crisis of purposelessness that afflicts many women in their middle years: "I lost sight of myself as a woman, as an actress-even in my friendships I was neglectful. I knew I wasn't functioning well. I became rundown physically. When...
...King's supremacy over the Church, he loses his head. This much is familiar. But, we ask, why? Why does Sir Thomas follow the path of martyrdom that four hundred years later was to make him Saint Thomas? This is the question that Bolt explores in his splendid play and to which I muse essay an answer...