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...harshness, he was, as usual, thoughtful and careful. The U.S. should not strike back militarily, he said, adding, "The strongest arm of response is the moral one, one of outrage." Then should the matter be brought before the United Nations? Replied Jackson: "I would rather call a prayer meeting." Afterward Jackson, 71, went back to his wife Helen in Everett (pop. 54,400), the lumbermill town north of Seattle where he was born and raised. And where, a few hours after he got home, he suffered a heart attack and died...
...movement in a speech. But the maestro was irked by Senator Edward Kennedy's failure to show up and disappointed that high winds had canceled an 18-minute fireworks display, which may have partly explained his verve in decrying the "lunacy" of the nuclear arms race. Cracked Bernstein afterward: "There had to be some fireworks, and that...
...early 30s, with no experience whatsoever, Houseman found himself in Harlem, directing the first production of the Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Not long afterward he became Orson Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some...
...instead the Gielgud his friends say they see, the irrepressible Mr. Chat, full of observations, anecdotes and gossip. "You needn't say a word when you're with him," says Ralph Richardson, a close friend for 53 years. "Sometimes I will say yes or no or really? Afterward he will tell someone, 'I had a wonderful talk with Ralph.' And I didn't say anything! He's a continual firework of words...
...Mudd was reassigned to what he does as well as nearly anyone else in television, political reporting. He announced his ouster to newsroom colleagues last Tuesday. Nothing was said on the show that night about the shift, because Frank anticipated "an awkward moment, whether Mudd or Brokaw reported it." Afterward, however, Mudd allowed that he had longed to close the show with the ironic salutation, "Good night from all of them at NBC News...