Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th Century-Fox studios in Los Angeles is dark. The backdrop of khaki-drab Korean hills and everything that might serve as inventory, booty or memento have disappeared. Gone are the tables, tubing, clamps and surgical gowns from O.R.; neither the blandly frazzled Lieut. Colonel Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson) nor the avuncular Colonel Sherman Potter (Harry Morgan) will preside any more over that surgeons' battlefield. In the mess hall, the serving trays and cigarette packs are missing; Corporal Klinger (Jamie Farr), the drag queen of 4077, will never again ask Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) to give absolution...
...primary objective was to attract people interested in faculty positions. But the limitation in funding forced us to approach the series more pragmatically and consider the issues as the foremost criteria," Bryan A. Stevenson, publicity chairman of the series, said yesterday...
...varied life (he died last spring just short of his ninetieth birthday) MacLeish knew as much of the world as anyone. He was a lawyer, soldier, outspoken journalist, and Harvard professor, a public servant whose posts included Librarian of Congress and Assistant Secretary of State, an advisor to Adlai Stevenson and F.D.R., and above all a playwright and a poet...
...longest and most expensive election recount in U.S. history ends, with former Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III '52 declared the one-vote victor of last November's Illinois guheranorial race against incumbent James "Big Jim" Thompson. "I'm so happy--pass the Perrier Lite," exclaims the jubilant Stevenson. Local newspapers report that Stevenson was put over the top by two late-arriving ballots: from Adlai E. Stevenson II and Adlai E. Stevenson...
...characters took the bit in their teeth; all at once they became detached from the flat paper, they turned their backs on me and walked off bodily." The speaker is Robert Louis Stevenson; the story is Kidnapped (Scribners; $17.95). As young David Balfour seeks his rightful inheritance in the Scottish Highlands, his adventures indeed assume a sudden verve. Like last year's Treasure Island, this reprint is an ideal restoration. Most of the rare and splendid illustrations by N.C. Wyeth are not copies from the first edition; they have been brilliantly reproduced from the original paintings...