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...gram by living American composers and added: "You'd be surprised to find how many American composers are living." A small, energetic woman, Minnie Guggenheimer labors the year round raising money for her seven-week stadium season. She never hesitates to put the touch on an absolute stranger. "If I'm walking down Fifth Avenue," says she, "and see a lady in sable. I go up to her and say, 'You look as though you've got money to spare. I'm Minnie Guggenheimer and I need it.' " Smelling Rain. The success or failure...
...cheeks reddening with embarrassment, swallowed and asked quietly: "What if someone comes home, and he starts tearing things up and kicking you around? What do you do?" Her thinly veiled hypothetical question, raised last week at a meeting in the basement of a Fort Worth church, was a stranger's standard approach. But to the 14 other teen-agers on hand it proved conclusively that the shy questioner shared with them a familiar and shattering problem: alcoholic parents...
Mounting a photographer's chair to get closer to the Prime Minister, the stranger spoke, and Verwoerd turned to shake the hand of a presumed greeter. Instead he stared at the point-blank muzzle of a .32 automatic. Pratt fired twice, and South Africa's Prime Minister lay on the concrete aisle, blood spurting from two holes in his cheek and ear. His wife flung her arms around him, crying "What's happened? What's happened?" Then she fainted. Verwoerd's personal bodyguard, Major Carl Richter. was a few feet away when, belatedly, he realized...
...from young Samuel Miller, dying of fever on a ship homeward bound from Africa in 1818, to Missionary-Pilot Nathanael Saint, sinking under the spears of the Amazon's Auca Indians in 1956, brave men have looked to the great missionary to the Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five times within an inch of his life, he was beaten thrice with rods, four times he was shipwrecked (once adrift in a storm for 24 hours), once...
Five Finger Exercise. An English family's hopeless un-togetherness and snapping tensions nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer, well staged by Director John Gielgud...