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...Room Walkup. Graduated from Bryn Mawr and determined to be a great actress, Kate pursued the theater with such intensity and such conviction as her fellow actors had seldom seen and generally resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last!" She played stock in Baltimore, studied dramatics in New York under Frances Robinson-Duff, landed a bit part in These Days, a Broadway flop. For six months she understudied Hope Williams in Holiday. Sculptor Robert McKnight, who wanted to marry her, took her to the country for an afternoon. She talked...
...even went to look at houses on Philadelphia's Main Line. Then she came to and asked herself: "What am I doing? I couldn't live here." The bridegroom gave everything up, quietly. They left the Main Line for Manhattan, the theater, and a two-room walkup apartment that was short on furniture and long on classical records...
...night watching the Wearever Waterless Cookwear salesman prepare a dinner. The Wearever Company offers part-time jobs to students, and requires each applicant to spend some time with one of the Company's representatives as training for the job. After a five-minute walk I reached the three-decker walkup where I was to meet the salesman...
Martinu lives modestly in a third-floor Manhattan walkup. He has received a few commissions, makes most of his money teaching a weekly composition class at Mannes, another at Princeton. Only his last few U.S. works bring royalties, and they are tiny. Few recordings of his music are available here. Most of his manuscripts are still in Czechoslovakia, and irretrievable. So are his Czech royalties...
...championship was on its way, too. After a fagged and beaten Ike had hit the canvas for the fourth time in Round 14, the fight was stopped. Little Jimmy Carter, who had seemed doomed to the life of a ham-&-egger, went home to his third-floor Harlem walkup to tell his wife and two-year-old son how, in his first fight in the Garden, he had become lightweight champion of the world...