Word: veras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eventual illumination that the captivating but amoral and egocentric hero brings to those around him. Joey never seems subject to the ideal of constancy which the romantic mind pursues all the more diligently as the improbability of attaining it increases, In renouncing Joey at the end of the musical, Vera Simpson gains immensely in moral stature as Joey diminishes. Linda, or Mousey, who has not learned the lesson of coping with irresponsible charm, remains alone and monetarily bereft of any spiritual sustenance...
Steve Lawrence makes his stage debut in the title role of the Framingham production, and his stage presence and delivery of the songs are able and sometimes compelling. He does, however, fail to capture the essential coarseness of the hero. Irene Manning very effectively portrays the aging Vera Simpson, in her progress into and out of a hopeless love affair. Karen Thorsell as Linda makes the most of the least individual character in the play, and Mara Lynn brings a wonderful, brassy professionalism to the role of Fladys Bumps. Minor parts, especially Renee Taylor's Melba, are well done. Both...
...tournament's biggest upset (TIME, July 6), went all the way to the quarter finals before losing to Britain's Ann Haydon. And in the finals, San Antonio's No.8-seeded Karen Hantze Susman, 19 years old and recently married, made short work of Czechoslovakia's Vera Sukova, 6-4, 6-4, while her proud husband, a college student, watched happily from the stands...
Different Stories. After her mother's arrest, giddy, publicity-eager Sylvia Brühne spilled an eerie story to police and press. Vera, she said, had only pretended her willingness to relinquish the estate...
...Vera was soon moved into the most comfortable cell in Munich's Ettstrasse police jail...