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...wrote dozens of parodies, short stories and other humor pieces for the New Yorker. One of the more famous was a 1962 short story, "Yma Dream," a frequently anthologized tale of a strange cocktail party whose guests bear tongue-twister names. He adapted it as a sketch for Anne Bancroft's 1970 television special, Annie: The Women in the Life of a Man, which not only won him an Emmy but also introduced him to both its director and producer, Martin Charnin, who later offered him his first Broadway show, and his future writing partner, Bancroft's husband, Mel Brooks...
Forgive me for saying this, but you don't look as if you could have crossed Antarctica. [Bancroft...
...years ago, baby boomers Ann Bancroft, 48, and Liv Arnesen, 50, became the first women to cross Antarctica by foot--trekking 1,700 miles in nearly three months in temperatures as cold as -35ºF. The duo write about their experience in No Horizon Is So Far. TIME spoke with Bancroft...
...Antarctica Adventure Explorer Ann Bancroft discusses her new book, which details her record-breaking 1,700-mile trek across Antarctica...
LIZABETH COHEN. Bancroft Prize winner, Pulitzer finalist and Harvard professor of history Lizabeth Cohen discusses her new book, A Consumer’s Republic: Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Friday, Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. Cohen’s book re-examines how American consumption patterns after the World War II changed political campaigning and helped create the conditions for some of the most powerful forms of activism on behalf of civil rights...