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...That Ain't Ed." The radio bulletins were enough to keep Ed's kin up all night, talking and laughing. Then they got a shock when Ed's half brother, Grover Dickenson, trudged in with a copy of the Roanoke Times. The newspaper carried on its front page a picture of Ed. Bessie took one look at the picture and began to cry. "That ain't my boy," she said. "Eddie was a purty boy, and look at him now. If that's him, he ain't got no teeth. I just know...
...Ain't Afraid of No One." Managing Editor Hathway's campaign against De Koning was hardly personal. Ever since he came to Newsday eleven years ago from the New York Daily News, Hathway has been deluged with tips and complaints about De Koning's rough, highhanded labor tactics. When De Koning ("I ain't afraid of no one") moved in to take over control of the raceway's employees, Hathway set his reporters to work. Newsday discovered that De Koning's union members, to hold their jobs at the track, were forced to kick...
...busy in Hollywood with the Ruth St. Denis School and the "Church of the Divine Dance," where she has about 50 disciples of all ages. She also has 50 acres south of Riverside, Calif., where she would like to start a colony. "If I had an endowment-which I ain't got-" she adds with the breeziness of an old trouper. "I would take six boys and six girls and keep them under monastic discipline in a retreat for five years before I would allow them to dance. My vision is of a renaissance in America, beginning with...
...ain't no sin to let the fun begin...
...television. All the actors do is pretend there has been action-they pant and they groan and they tell you how far they have just run. TV seems dedicated to saying everything without words. The actors stand around and grunt and say 'Dats so' or 'Ain't dat right?' This is stupid." Hecht's decision: "I figured there was one thing I could do. I could write wordy, dialogue-type plays: This sort of thing went out of fashion 25 years ago. I'm hoping to bring it back...