Thurber quips meet in London foreshadowing a TV venture
James Thurber, met in 1957 London, is recalled as a witty guest with keen insight and sharp humor. The piece traces Thurber’s financial hopes for media adaptation, notes his blindness, and chronicles efforts by Sheldon Leonard and others to develop a Thurber television show while preserving his distinctive voice.
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James Thurber
London
Stafford Hotel
Thurber
Houses of Parliament
Sheldon Leonard
Danny Arnold
Alcoa-Gondyear
Jim Thurber
Lang’s 101st year hopes and long life watching music end
Boston composer Margaret Ruthven Lang, 101, hopes to live to see what comes next. She recalls a life of composing solos, choruses, and orchestral works, was honored by the Boston Symphony in 1967, and now lives at Beacon Hill while weathering arthritis and confinement.
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Boston
Margaret Ruthven Lang
Charles River
Beacon Hill
Boston Symphony
Subway
Lang
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Munich
Germany
Miss Lang
Benjamin J. Lang
King’s Chapel
Tremont Street
Richard Wagner
Wagner
Borgnine's roller coaster life after Oscars and turmoil
Ernest Borgnine speaks of career highs after winning the Oscar for Marty and the lows from failed marriages and financial strain. He recalls a posthumous James Dean snub, a bank overdraft, and plots for a $100,000 yacht as he nears another busy acting stretch with Vengeance is Yours and a trip to Italy.
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Hollywood
Marty
Ernest Borgnine
Borgnine
James Dean
Dean
Katy Jurado
Ethel Merman
Newport Beach
Italy
McHale's Navy
Brazil’s Media Landscape Counts Vast Array of Outlets
Rio de Janeiro report notes Brazil has 452 newspapers 438 magazines 1372 radio stations and 39 television stations at latest tally highlighting dense media presence across the country.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Early Telephone Directory Lists Names Only
The first telephone directory contained names with no numbers. Among early subscribers were a clergyman three doctors two dentists two stables the Yale News and the New Haven Flour Company with four phones across its plants.
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Yale News
New Haven Flour Company
Romania Sees Youth Shine in Its Theatrical World
In Bucharest a wave of under-35 writers and directors dominates Romania’s theater scene. A 26-year-old director leads diverse plays while a new author scores a major success. The system blends state support with growing permissiveness, staging 14,000 performances for four million spectators annually across 33 provinces and capital centers.
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Romania
George Constantin
Jonah
Andrei Serban
Marin Sorescu
Bucharest
State Training Center
Liviu Cilei
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Vronsky & Babin
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Clayton H. Krehbiel
Mozart
Ives
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