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...another of Cleveland's 151 schools, whirling through classrooms, doggedly inspecting furnaces and washrooms, machine-gunning questions at janitors and principals. She has plumped for better schools and playgrounds, demanded higher wages for school employees, secured 180,000 signatures to a petition for lower streetcar fares for schoolchildren, camped in newspaper offices until editors promised help. She and her board got more money for their schools than any before them. They upped teachers' salaries $1,200 a year, established free dental clinics in schools, set up a veterans' education program...
...arrival of FM radio was a big help. With conventional AM, the static from any passing streetcar could distort a "fax" page. FM made for smooth reception, but it raised an intriguing question. Since a broadcaster could convert to facsimile for $10,000 to $15,000, what was to prevent anyone with an FM license from going into the newspaper business...
...think marriage was made for an artist or an artist for marriage," declared Hit Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire), himself a bachelor. "He has to keep moving around. . . . There's something static about marriage...
...Streetcar Named Desire* shows a Southern neurotic on the last lap of a downhill journey. Massed behind Blanche Du Bois are the genteel decay of her small-town forebears, the sudden suicide of her homosexual husband, the soiled annals of her nymphomaniac whoring, the loss of her reputation, her job and her home. Unable to face the truth, she has fashioned a dream world in which she is highbred, sought after and straitlaced. Her dream is her main luggage when she arrives destitute in New Orleans to "visit" her sister Stella and Stella's roughneck Polish-American husband Stanley...
...only the clash between Blanche and Stanley (brilliantly enacted by Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando) gets real emotion and drama into the play. As in much recent writing about the South, the ugliness is easily offset by the fascination, and the South itself seems warm, vaporous, even visible in Streetcar, like steam on a windowpane...