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Leon Levy—a well-known Wall Street investor who died in 2003—and his widow Shelby White started the Shelby White-Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications at Harvard in 1997 to support research on terminated and unpublished field work from sites in Greece, Turkey, Cyrpus, Iran, and the Middle East...
...throughout his 22 years in the big leagues, most famously as a New York Yankee. He once called Yankee owner George Steinbrenner "the fat man upstairs" and another time punched a teammate on the nose during a bathroom brawl. In 1986, after San Diego Padres owner Joan Kroc, the widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, banned beer in the clubhouse, Gossage famously remarked, "She is poisoning the world with her hamburgers, and we can't even get a lousy beer...
...actress who, despite an utterly unpretentious style?"The main thing is to keep the audience awake," she said of her craft?won awards and critical raves for astute, rich performances over her 60-year career; in Lenox, Massachusetts. She got her break in 1951 as a passionate Italian-American widow in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won a Tony Award. Later she created roles in such Neil Simon plays as Plaza Suite, and won an Oscar for her portrayal of anarchist Emma Goldman in the 1981 film Reds...
...actress who, despite an utterly unpretentious style--"The main thing is to keep the audience awake," she said of her craft--won awards and critical raves for astute, rich performances over her 60-year career; in Lenox, Mass. She got her break in 1951 as a passionate Italian-American widow in Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won a Tony. Later she created roles in Neil Simon plays like Plaza Suite and won an Oscar for her portrayal of anarchist Emma Goldman in the 1981 film Reds...
...country princess, Case has always had a voice that lingers like a train whistle. What she hasn't had is an album worthy of her talent. The lyrics on this collection of gothic outsider tales feel a little reductive (Star Witness and A Widow's Toast are like under-grad verse about Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County), but with excellent backing from Calexico and Garth Hudson of the Band and flawless singing, Case sells them as undeniably haunting and catchy mood pieces...