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Talk about the high expectations of new parents. On the morning that Eva Burrows was born in an Australian mining town, her father, a Salvation Army officer, was conducting a worship service. Within minutes the father returned to his home, held the newborn baby aloft and uttered a prayer dedicating her to the glory of God and the salvation of the world. "It was rather a tall order for a little baby," says Burrows with a grin...
...remarkable extent, the history of Hungary since 1956 is the story of one man. Born in a rural town that is now part of Yugoslavia, Kadar was the illegitimate child of a peasant woman. As a youth, he made his way to Budapest and was trained as a typewriter mechanic. When the city erupted in 1930 in bloody workers' riots protesting unemployment, Kadar took part in the fighting. The next year he joined the Federation of Young Communist Workers. In 1942, with Hungary under Nazi occupation, Kadar was jailed. In 1949, after the Communists had come to power, he became...
Regrets Only, her first novel, highlights a growing Washington phenomenon: reporters are no longer just ink-stained hacks who cover the capital's celebrities; they have become, in fiction and fact, stars in their own right. In a town where power and glory are as ephemeral as the jobs that confer them, top reporters who stay put can become the most enduring part of the celebrity elite. It is a theme of Sally Quinn's novel--and of her life...
...answer in each case is the Oregon Shakespearean Festival, which unfolds where it started, within the ivy-covered remnant walls of a onetime Chautauqua dome in the folksy college town of Ashland (pop. 15,000). The first season, three performances, was accompanied by boxing matches to defray costs. The fights lost money. The theater made a profit. Today the Ashland operation, revered on the West Coast but largely unknown elsewhere, has an annual budget of $5.5 million and sells more than 90% of capacity...
Fowler, far more urbane and polished, is stronger in Atlanta. He has a wry sense of humor, which he uses to deflect Jordan's charge that he is too far to the left. It reminds him, Fowler smiles, of the time he was marching in a small-town parade and heard an old country boy on the sidewalk growl, "That Fowler even looks like a liberal, don't he?" With its city-slicker vs. good- ole-boy flavor, the Fowler-Jordan race is in some ways a reflection of the Bond-Lewis contest...