Debbie Reynolds returns to Broadway after hospital episode
Debbie Reynolds defies medical advice to rejoin Woman of the Year on Broadway as show survival hinges on business. She collapsed during last Saturday’s matinee and was hospitalized. Roosevelt Hospital neurologist Dr. Lewis Travis described her condition as transient global amnesia with no expected recurrence but advised rest.
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Greene Says He Wrote For 20 Years Before Living On Books
In a Times of London letter from Antibes Graham Greene recalls enduring nearly a decade of debt before his novels supported him. He notes only around 8,000 copies of Brighton Rock sold at 7s 6d in 1938 and that publishers risked a larger first printing of The Power and the Glory in 1940.
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City candidates would need legal names under new rule
In San Francisco the Board of Supervisors gave initial approval to a bill requiring candidates to use legal names. If enacted, it could affect campaigns by those using monikers such as Sister Boom Boom and threaten other slogans and aliases in mayoral bids. Jack Fertig ran as Sister Boom Boom with nun attire and 23121 votes, finishing ninth.
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