Word: candida
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...constant need of mothering. Few authors can have that need fulfilled as thoroughly as Novelist Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?), whose agent really is his mother, Ad Schulberg, a 37-year veteran of the business. But few agents serve as a mother substitute as successfully as Candida Donadio, an exceedingly shy woman who abhors publicity and rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Thomas Pynchon (V.), and Bruce Jay Friedman (A Mother's Kisses) worship her for her combination of good business sense and warm understanding of their difficulties. The trade calls...
...Seven Aspects of Shaw," Part 1. Ac tress-Director-Producer Margaret Webster examines the many facets of G.B.S., read ing excerpts from his Man and Superman, Candida, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion. Repeat...
...wrote as compulsively as he talked, and the 691 letters in this volume form a fascinating biography from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk, to the age of 41, when he was on the eve of his first big success, Candida...
Hatfield's announcement of candida cy last week was in character. After his publicity men had put out the long-expected word via press release and recorded radio and TV spots, Hatfield drove to the farm community of Silverton (pop. 3,967), where 16 years earlier he had made his first campaign speech as a candidate for the state legislature. He held no formal press conference, went instead to a Kiwanis luncheon, where he barely mentioned his Senate candidacy. "I shall seek," his press release said, "to be a Senator of all the people." The announcement carried no indication...
...Shaw's life from the age of 17, when he was a Dublin real estate agent's clerk ("in a decaying green coat, cuffs trimmed with the scissors"), to the age of 41, on the eve of his first great success, which came with the production of Candida. In those intervening years, he migrated to London to join his mother (who gave music lessons to support him and his sisters), wrote novels that earned him almost nothing, and finally became an established music and drama critic...