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...those days, Americans had home towns. A boy was born in his father's house in Charlottesville, Va., or Ambler, Pa., or Scott City, Kans.; and that's where he grew up. He wore short pants until he was twelve, then went downtown on the streetcar with his mother to get his first pair of knickers. Automobiles were still symbols of success; a dad with an Apperson 8 or a Pierce-Arrow or a Hupmobile was forgiven if he showed off a bit by taking the family for a Sunday drive. Radios were primitive; sales of Atwater Kents...
College Grads and Clam Beds. By the 1870s-chasing a new breed of bank robbers, mostly ex-soldiers like the Younger Brothers of Missouri, and pouncing on cheating streetcar conductors in the East-Pinkerton agents were operating out of offices in New York and Philadelphia. The revolutionary slum boy from Glasgow was able to build himself a Scottish estate in Onarga, Ill., complete with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society...
MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER, Spring Green, Wis., offers Friedrich von Schiller's Mary Stuart, Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, June 22-July...
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER, San Francisco, will perform Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Albee's Tiny Alice, Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill, Tartuffe and The Misanthrope by Molière throughout the summer. Your Own Thing, Donald Driver's rock musical, plays through August...
...proof of his intentions, Dubček has removed almost every restraint on the press and other media. He has banished the party censors from the Central Publications Administration, which oversees the printing of everything from books to streetcar tickets. He has released for production four movie scripts that had been gathering dust in the censors' office, even allowed TV newsmen into-of all places-a meeting of the Presidium. As reassurance to Czechoslovakia's writers and intellectuals, whose clamor for change led to his takeover, Dubček has approved publication of a new liberal journal entitled...