Broken down car sparks comic book empire in Willimantic
In two years the Ziesing brothers grew from a hole-in-the-wall shop to a Main Street bookstore drawing fans from across Connecticut. They plan a University of Connecticut branch, stock 200 current titles monthly, publish a customers’ newsletter, host readings, and trade rare editions while catering to serious comic enthusiasts despite a diverse shelf including adult titles and classic heroes.
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Willimantic, Conn
UPI
California
Mark Ziesing
Ziesing
University of Connecticut
Mark
Connecticut
Mike
Uconn
Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Spider Man
Captain America
Ziesings
On the Rocks and Jingo: two plays on Britain's malaise
London critics review Shaw's On the Rocks at the Mermaid Theatre and Charles Wood's Jingo for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Shaw writes of 1933 Britain with unemployment and a crumbling democracy, urging radical solutions that fail. Wood presents a Singapore 1942 scenario to illustrate political disaster and accountability.
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Britain
George Bernard Shaw
Mermaid Theater
Charles Wood
Royal Shakespeare Company
London
No. 10
Downing Street
Wood
Raffles Hotel
Singapore
Shaw
Lorelei and Channing Spark Lorelei Run in Washington
Washington critics praise Carol Channing in Lorelei as a durable American musical comedy icon. The seven day engagement at Shady Grove Music Theatre delivers classic Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend and Bye Bye Baby with Joan Bell delivering standout dance numbers and a strong supporting cast, leaving audiences humming.
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Washington
UPI
Lorelei Lee
Carol Channing
Anita Loos
Lorelei
Miss Channing
Shady Grove Music Theatre
National Theater
Broadway
Miss Loos
Little Rock
Joan Bell
Dorothy
Miss Bell
Carol
Book Review Gasping at the gap in generation clash
Midge Decter argues from a conservative stance in Liberal Parents Radical Children, critiquing Mead Reich and Goodman while framing youth as fearful and self blaming. The book uses four fictional portraits Dropout Pothead Sexual Revolutionary and Communard as sociology.
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America
Charles Reich
Paul Goodman
Timothy Leary
Baba Ram Dass
Stones
Midge Decter
Margaret Mead
Decter
Pothead
Woodwards
Bernsteins
Tom Hayden
Port Huron
S.D.S
U.S. Senate
Sam Brown
Washington
Colorado
TV season opens with comedies and sharp theater reviews
New York TV critic notes the coming season features comedies about single parents led by Joe and Sons with Richard Castellano and Jerry Stiller, plus Phyllis with Cloris Leachman. Shaw is praised for direct strong diagnoses while Decter’s generational portraits are criticized as superficial and stereotype ridden.
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Joan Hanauer
New York
UPI
Joe & Sons
Richard Castellano
CBS
Jerry Stiller
Castellano
Stiller
Art Carney
Ed Norton
Joe Vitale
Gus Dizik
Joe
Gus
God
Phyllis
Mary Tyler Moore
SVAC Seeks New Executive Director in Manchester Center
The Southern Vermont Art Center asks for resumes for a paid executive director who need not be an artist but must have art history knowledge and public dealings skills. A committee led by Harry Shokler will review applicants. Arthur Jones will step down after summer.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
Isley S. Zecher
Art Center
Arkell
Zecher
Harry Shokler
Barn
Londonderry
Beatrice Jackson
Ogden Pleissner
Gene Pelham
A. Basil Lyons
Stephen A. Wilson
Carleton Howe
Barn Studio
Manchester Center
Arthur Jones
Woodstock
Warm Springs
Hove Sound
Fla
Dorset
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Moon
Franco Zeffirelli
St. Francis of Assissi
Donovan
Ennio Guarnieri
Ingmar Bergman
Liv Ullman
Erland Josephson
Anna
New York Times
Uncanny
Book Review
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Joanna Bendheim
Berkshire Eagle
Rhoda
Cloris Leachman
San Francisco
Lars
Audrey
Jane Rose
Glen Ford
Archie Bunker
L.A
Pat
Docter
Benn
Ben
Joe Camp
Mulberry Square Productions Inc
Mark Twain
Monument Plaza
SVAC
Ave
Walker's
SenMoUnhoune
Chaitn Heston A Garineh
Serge Kennedy Ohne Gafene
Eneveve Burol
Richard Roundtree
Arlell
Aney
New Harte Theatre
PA Street
Bennington
Vermont
Sah
Eddie
Bennington, VT
Clint Eastwood
George Kennedy
Malopesner
Warren Murphy and
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Trevawian
John Williams
Liw7
Robert Omley
Evecumve Prague
Richard C Zannick
David Brown
Universal Picture
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