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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Toys in the Attic, by Lillian Hellman in a Tennessee Williams vein, had Boston audiences/coughing and ho-humming through a talky first act, but soon caught their attention with enough incest, adultery, miscegenation and fornication to keep a three-toed sloth awake for a month. Starring Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth and Jason Robards Jr.., it is the first original play in nine years by Dramatist Hellman (The Little Foxes, The Children's Hour). Wrote the Boston Record's Elliot Norton: "She has written wisely, often wittily, and her point of view is provocative. But the basic story seemed...
...file. The Department of State, in a mystified frenzy, falsely accused the British of leaking to Reston and protested to the Times and the FBI started investigating Reporter Reston. British Ambassador Lord Halifax, a friend of Reston's, refused to see him: "I'm not going to keep your friendship at the price of losing that of the American Secretary of State...
Good, hard, tough reporting is what serious Scotty Reston means to keep on trying to give to the public."The 19th century," he says, "was the era of the novelist. The 20th is the era of the journalist. A distracted people, busy with the fierce competitions of modern life, must be addressed while they are paying attention, which is usually at the moment of some great national or international event...
...This problem of continuity has also occurred to Presidents. In 1932 Herbert Hoover invited Franklin D. Roosevelt to briefings on policy and work in progress. Harry Truman, anxious to keep his 1948 opponent informed on foreign-policy developments, ordered a Teleprinter installed on Tom Dewey's campaign train, sent him "important messages that came to me on the subject of international affairs." Similarly, in 1952, he invited President-elect ' Eisenhower to the White House for chats about the "transition period...
...rate of 5^¼%, charges 12% interest for his loans. Some bankers consider the rate outrageous, but Heller's customers rarely complain. Says a Minnesota businessman now negotiating a Heller loan: "The bank interest, when you consider everything, works out to 8% or 9%, and you have to keep a big balance in the bank, on which you get no credit or interest. For the service Heller performs, his rates are not unreasonable. And we don't have to call Mr. Heller and say 'Please, can we buy a turret lathe...