Tony Awards Spark Multiple Wins for Sticks and Bones
David Rabe's Sticks and Bones topped drama honors while Two Gentlemen of Verona won best musical. Alexis Smith and Phil Silvers led acting prizes. Follies claimed seven awards. The ceremony coincided with Shakespeare's birth anniversary and honored careers of Ethel Merman and Richard Rodgers.
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New York
David Rabe
John Guare
Mel Shapiro
Alexis Smith
Follies
Phil Silvers
Cliff Gorman
Lenny
Lada Thompson
Twigs
Larry Blyden
Forum
Linda Hopkins
Vincent Gardenia
Second Avenue
Elizabeth Wilson
Guare
Shapiro
Lively Theatrical Organization
Joseph Papp
Stephen Sondheim
Harold Prince
Michael Bennett
Bennett
Mike Nichols
Theater Guild- American Theater Society
Weather Forecast North and South Carolina Sees Cooler Temperatures
A cold front will push in from the west bringing below normal late April temperatures to North and South Carolina. Lows range from upper 30s to low 40s in the mountains and near 50 along the coast with a 20 to 30 percent chance of showers. Wednesday through Friday show partly cloudy skies, unseasonably cool mornings, and gradual warming with highs mainly in the 50s to 70s by Friday.
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Azures
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High Point
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Escapee's Charges Denied by NC Official
Marion North Carolina prison official dismisses in Massachusetts claim that a guard drank with escapee Cecil Van Hill Jr and forced him to help pursue two other escapees. White says the officer did not drink and Hill volunteered to aid in recapture. Hill, 39, from Rutherfordton, escaped Jan 29 while serving auto theft sentence in Guilford County.
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Marion
N.C
North Carolina
Massachusetts
James C. White
North Carolina Correction Department
Cecil van Hill Jr
Rutherford,ton
Hill
White
Guilford County
McDowell
Marjon
Hobby Campaign Tour Moves Into Northeastern North Carolina
Wilbur Hobby the Democratic gubernatorial candidate prepared to visit shopping centers and industrial plants in the Roanoke Rapids Weldon area to court voters. He said a telegram has been sent to Lt. Gov. Pat Taylor accepting a debate offer and suggested a runoff with Bowles remains likely.
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Roanoke Rapids
N.C
Wilbur Hobby
North Carolina
Hobby
Roanoke Rapids-Weldon
Pat Taylor
Afl-Cio
Taylor
Hargrove
Bowles
Raleigh
Greensboro
Governor's Mother Dies Of Pneumonia
Mrs. Kerr Scott, widow of North Carolina Governor W. Kerr Scott, dies at 74 in Duke Hospital after pneumonia. She supported her husband during his long political career and was active in the Presbyterian Church, State Grange, and early 4H work. Funeral plans incomplete.
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N.C
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W. Kerr Scott
Alfred Lowgovernor
North Carolina
Cuyahoga Falls
Duke Hospital
Ohio
Bob Scott
Jessie Raie
Mrs. Scott
Miss Mary
U.S
Terry Sanford
Duke University
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Senate
Sanford
Hawfields
Alamance County
Mary
Scott’s Land
North Carolina highway toll climbs to 516 for year
The North Carolina Highway Patrol reports 12 deaths on Tar Heel roads over the weekend, bringing annual fatalities to 516. Seven deaths occurred in collisions including Samuel L. Lewis 20 Tarboro and Ruth B. Jones, unknown, while four occurred in single car accidents and one pedestrian death was recorded in Greensboro.
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Associated Press
North Carolina Highway Patrol
Samuel L. Lewis
Tarboro
Rocky Mount
Susan A. McKinnon
Nathaniel Durant
Elm City
U.S. 301
Sharpsburg
Charles Hegepeth
Moses Williams
Enfield
Charles Pinnix
Mebane
Haw River
N.C
William M. Triplett
Lenoir
Newton
Aubrey Thompson
Concord
Ruth B. Jones
Hoke
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Southside Baptist Church
Stanton Street
High Point, N.C
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Came ‘ Allon
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