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...bomb shelter is packed full now, several hundred people sitting thigh-to-thigh in a room designed to hold only a few dozen. The air is filled with a haze of tobacco from the grown-ups' chain-smoking. A grim Israeli soldier, armed with an automatic machine gun and a walkie-talkie, looks on as the children laugh merrily...
...character actor who capped a long career with his portrayal of the blustery grandfather in television's homespun series, The Waltons; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Wanderlust led the young Geer to riverboat theater, the Shakespearean stage and the bright lights of Broadway (Of Mice and Men, Tobacco Road). Blacklisted in the McCarthy era, he pursued an interest in botany with a book on the 1,000 plants in Shakespeare's plays and a repertory theater in Topanga Canyon, Calif, called the Theatricum Botanicum, where he continued to hold workshops for young actors even after his Grandpa...
Carter personifies the resurgence of the white South which began about 1971. The memory and burden of Tobacco Road are purged by his work ethic and clean living. He is John-Boy Walton grown...
Gelsey marched on Dec. 29, 1952, in a Bethlehem, Pa., hospital. Her father Jack was a playwright who had scored handsomely as adapter of Tobacco Road for Broadway; her mother Nancy, a onetime actress, had retired from the stage to become Jack's fifth wife. A sister, Johnna, was nearly four when Gelsey was born; she has a brother, Marshall, 16 months younger...
...million. But the acquisition of U.S. Lines in 1969 for $104 million in cash and stock was, Sullivan admits, a grave mistake. U.S. Lines lost $1.5 million in 1970, whereupon Sullivan began looking for a buyer for that arm of the Kidde empire. He agreed to give R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. a six-year option, but trustbusters blocked the sale because Reynolds had acquired McLean's Sea-Land operation...