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...lobbying for more protection. "We hope to hang on until somebody comes to their senses in Washington," he says, "[but] I don't hold out much hope." And even if Washington wants to protect him, it doesn't have much ammunition to use against China. --With reporting by James Carney and Douglas Waller/Washington, Paul Cuadros/Chapel Hill, Joyce Huang/Taipei and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
...Sweet It was Actor Art Carney was closely identified with the TV sitcom The Honeymooners, as our Milestone on his death noted [Nov. 24]. Eighteen years ago, some early segments of the show were dug out of storage and released. They originally aired from 1952 to 1957, when The Honeymooners was a regular segment on Jackie Gleason's hour-long TV variety show. Our critic described these episodes in a May 13, 1985, report...
...Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, otherwise known as Ralph and Alice Kramden... lived in that dingy two-room apartment on Chauncey Street... and their best friends were already their upstairs neighbors, Ed and Trixie Norton (Art Carney and Joyce Randolph). Unlike most other sitcom couples of the '50s, the Honeymooners were not middle class but the working poor. Ralph earned $62 a week driving a bus; Norton worked, as he liked to say, as an engineer of subterranean sanitation-in the sewer system ... Ralph was even louder, brasher and more abrasive [then] ... Alice was also louder and more argumentative...
DIED. ART CARNEY, 85, actor; in Chester, Conn. It was only a speck in a 50-year career that began in radio (a specialty was imitating F.D.R.), flourished on Broadway (where he was the original Felix Unger in The Odd Couple) and earned distinction in Hollywood (an Oscar for 1974's Harry and Tonto). But as Ed Norton, the "underground sanitation expert" and upstairs neighbor of Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the primal sitcom The Honeymooners, Carney proved that a second banana could be the top. His booming voice was complemented by a genius for body English. Carney...
...diplomat. Plame all but came in from the cold last week, making her first public appearance, at a Washington lunch in honor of her husband, who was receiving an award for whistle blowing. The blown spy's one not-so-secret request? No photographs, please. --With reporting by James Carney, Nancy Gibbs, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington and Matthew Cooper/with Bush in Asia