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Watch on the Rhine, which was voted best play of the year by the critics in 1940-41, is a strong anti-Nazi tract, half drama, half propaganda. The 1943 movie version, with Bette Davis and, Paul Lukas, can still evoke tears and anger on the late show. New Haven's Long Wharf Theater put it on the boards last year, and Producer Lester Osterman, who was in the audience, decided to bring it to Broadway: "The audience there was enthusiastic. I was crying." With three co-producers he raised $225,000 and opened the play...
...antique dealer who wrote out a $750 Check for a $40 clock, the booming market for old (and empty) bottles. "Never throw anything away," he says, sipping his coffee. When he leaves, others finish his story. Paul is an erstwhile real-estate developer--his goal to build a housing tract on a hillside the town wants to keep intact. To cut property taxes on his home, he's built it underground...
...malignant melanoma-a form of skin cancer that can spread to other organs-and that it was surgically removed in 1943. He also suspects that when Lahey was called to the White House in March 1944, the physician found that the cancer had metastasized-perhaps to the gastrointestinal tract; several sources confirm that Roosevelt experienced abdominal pains. Cancer could also account for F.D.R.'s accompanying loss of appetite and weight. Further, it would explain why Roosevelt gave his son James funeral instructions shortly after his last Inaugural...
...sparkling tract home in San Diego's east end, rented partly with story-rights money, the twins settle down at the kitchen table after school for a rapid-fire game of clipping magazine pages and scribbling. "Can-I-haf-pen?" Gracie asks a visitor. "Inna gonna write-on da walls," she hastily assures her parents, who are in the living room. The visitor asks if she remembers the old language. "Yes," Ginny replies quickly. "No, you don't!" interrupts Tom Kennedy from the front-room couch. "I don't know why you are lying about that!" Ginny...
...sale, currently scheduled for December 18, will open a tract off Cape Cod--one of the world's richest fishing grounds--to exploratory drilling. Groups protesting the sale said that the Department of Interior's decision underestimates the roughness of the area's waters and the value of its fisheries...