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...Dame May Whitty, Webster served her own apprenticeship as a performer on the London stage during the '20s. She found her métier, however, as a Broadway director more than a decade later, and her major triumphs of the '30s and '40s (Richard II, Hamlet, Twelfth Night) made Shakespeare a New York box office success...
...Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District is a kind of political Wimbledon where the best two out of three sets mean a winner. Roughly one-third of the district-Cape Cod and the Nantucket Sound islands-is Yankee Republican. Another third-the depressed onetime whaling capital of New Bedford-is ethnically Democratic. The South Boston suburbs stretching from Weymouth to Plymouth are fiercely independent; the candidate who can conquer them while holding his own bloc takes everything...
This year two personable contestants face one another in the Twelfth. Democrat Gerry Studds, 35, is a former prep school teacher and Foreign Service officer who even learned Portuguese to improve his image among immigrant New Bedford voters. Opponent William Weeks, 46, is strictly Brahmin: Father Sinclair was Dwight Eisenhower's Commerce Secretary; Grandfather John was Coolidge's Secretary of War. After graduating from Harvard, Weeks himself served for a time as an assistant dean of freshmen at the college. The two are running neck and neck, but McGovern liberalism is hurting Studds...
Seventeen-year-old Murry finished twelfth in the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Japan and has a total of 14 medals from figure-skating competitions throughout the world...
...Democratic State Legislature redistricted the Twelfth in 1971 and cut out some of the towns favorable to Keith. So the 14-year veteran decided to retire and Studds now faces the man Keith beat in the 1970 Republican primary former State Senator William Weeks. Weeks is grandson of former Senator John Wingate Weeks after whom the Weeks Bridge is named, and son of former U.S. Senator and Eisenhower Administration Treasury Secretary Sinclair Weeks...