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Born in the mill town of Windsor Locks just outside Hartford, Ella Tambussi was the only child of Italian immigrants. She won a scholarship to the elite Chaffee School, and her father worked 14-hour shifts in a bakery to pay for her books. Another scholarship took her to Massachusetts' Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1940. After earning a master's degree in economics and sociology, she became a protégée of John Bailey, longtime boss of the Connecticut Democratic organization...
DIED. John ("Bonzo") Bonham, 32, drummer for the British rock group Led Zeppelin; of still undetermined causes; in Windsor, England. A retiring type offstage, living on a Worcestershire farm with his wife, son and daughter, Bonham had an exuberant style on the drums described by Rolling Stone magazine as "the aural equivalent of watching Clint Eastwood club eight bad guys over the head with a two-by-four while driving a derailed locomotive through their hideout...
Last week Ford Motor Co., which is expected to lose $1 billion on domestic car operations in 1980, announced the permanent closing of its assembly plant in Mahwah, N.J., shut down smaller operations in Dearborn, Mich., and Windsor, Ont, and cut 15,000 blue-and white-collar jobs. Time may be running short for Chrysler. Sales are off 26% from 1979's already depressed levels, and the company is making a herculean cost-cutting and consolidation effort in order to qualify for $1.5 billion in federal guaranteed loans. Even mighty General Motors last week put 12,000 more workers...
...hundreds of visitors there during his life, mostly men, later using many of them as material for his books and plays. Here, Morgan's style becomes lighter and slightly disjointed as he skips from one anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young...
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