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...request an evaluation from a person who has himself played the role of Lear. Harold R. Scott '57, an award-winning actor well known in New York and abroad, played Lear professionally to high acclaim at the age of 22--thus following the lead of Britain's famed William Devlin, who first played the role at the same age. Mr. Scott, who was a drama critic for the Summer News in 1959, has recently been playing the leading role in "A Raisin in the Sun" and will appear in Albee's "Tiny Alice" this month...
...gold towns, gamblers and prostitutes cleaned up, and children entertained themselves by re-enacting the latest lynching. Such a climate is perfectly suited to the talents of the two characters who dominate the book. Giving up corporation law in New York for a squalid miner's wickiup, Matt Devlin soon stops digging and turns to honest usury instead, buying out the claims of desperate miners. On Wall Street meanwhile, his cousin Joshua Ching is even more brutal and even more successful...
Throughout, no fewer than 22 major characters clash, plot and love together. Matt Devlin is entertained by the bride of his brother, who dallies occasionally with the teen-age mistress of Matt's son Morgan. Morgan's married sister gets her kicks from his best friend, a mean and hungry panhandler who keeps disappearing into the arms that Morgan has just left. In New York, Joshua Ching's mistress is younger than his daughter Suky, who, in her turn, takes two men to heart, including Cousin Morgan, who, when in town from the West, shares a couple...
...Jack Nicklaus: the Australian Open Golf Championship, with a sizzling five-under-par 67 in an 18-hole playoff against Aussie Pro Bruce Devlin. The money was measly ($1,787), but it was Jack's first win in three trips Down Under, and the first U.S. victory in the Open since Gene Sarazen...
With the Republicans currently most in need of such help, Burdick imagines the real control of that party falling under the influence of two young behavioral scientists, the male named Madison Curver and the beautiful female known only as Dr. Devlin. These two are so brilliant that they talk only in footnotes...