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...unlikely combination of circumstances has conspired to keep this curious, compelling tale from public view. History is written by the victors; the senior Franklin's autobiography gives his offspring no more than a brief nod for helping him build some frontier forts. As for William, his chance of writing his own version was severely hampered by a Revolutionary War fire that destroyed not only his furniture but all his papers. Luck was most assuredly not on this man's side...
...married woman, including Hellcats of the Navy, in which she co-starred with her husband. When Ron, the second child, was born in 1958, she was almost 37 and no longer acting in feature films. But two years later the Reagans performed together again in a very curious TV production called A Turkey for the President: they played the poultry-farming Caldwells, an American Indian couple in Southern California whose son is chosen to send his pet bird to the White House for Thanksgiving dinner...
...roaming salesman of aluminum siding, Pete Ueberroth was born Sept. 2, 1937, in Evanston, Ill. His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth. Perhaps because Victor's education ended in the eighth grade, he always had an encyclopedia near by and engaged his family in mind puzzles, a drill Peter used years later to brace his Olympic employees. His mother, Laura Larson, half Swedish and half Irish, had been ill almost from the time he was born. A Christian Scientist, like her husband...
CREEPIEST EXIT. Apparently convinced that major league teams make a major league city, Indianapolis has been in a positive fever to become some place else. This is certainly understandable, but associating with Robert Irsay--he of the midnight moving vans--seems a curious way to move up in class. One gain: Irsay does not own the Baltimore Colts any more--just the Indianapolis Colts...
...point on which it is poised is the suppressed emotional tipsiness of Adela Quested. As played in the movie by Australian Actress Judy Davis, Adela is dull at first glance but with a wild surmise glowing in her eyes, her gestures half formed, alternately acknowledging and denying the curious new telegraphy that India is dot-dashing through her ganglia. She will have her adventure! She will touch, as the Anglo-Indians keep refusing to, Indian reality! And she will do so despite the warnings of her fiancé (Nigel Havers, who does the impossible by making priggishness sympathetic...