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...director vowed never to see the film again. Last week at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, after a painstaking reassembly, the original version that Cukor loved-all three hours of it-was shown publicly for the first time since its release 29 years ago. James Mason, 74, who played Norman Maine to Judy Garland's Esther Blodgett took a bow at intermission, but Film Historian Ronald Haver was the true star of the show. Combing musty film vaults in Brooklyn and Hollywood, Haver first found a copy of the original sound track, which he used...
...actions will ripple through the world economy. Developing countries such as Mexico and Brazil are still staggering under their enormous foreign debt load. If U.S. interest rates rise enough to stall global economic growth, debtor nations could conceivably go into default and trigger a banking crisis. Says William Mason, who heads an investment advisory service in Los Angeles: "An aborted recovery would be not only a national disaster, but an international disaster as well. Volcker understands that...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Neil Simon, 55, playwright and screenwriter; and Marsha Mason, 41, actress for whom he wrote lead parts in the movies Max Dugan Returns, Only When I Laugh, The Goodbye Girl and Chapter Two, the last a lightly disguised comic portrait of their courtship and marriage; after ten years of marriage; no children; in Los Angeles...
Several officials likened the Takemi program to the Mason Scholars program at the Kennedy School of Government, which for the past 25 years has helped train Third World leaders in matters of public policy relevant to their native lands...
Thomas P. Sellers, associate director of the K-School's Masters in Public Administration program--which supervises the Mason fellows--sums up the rationale behind this approach: "Consulting lasts as long as the product of that consulting and it's difficult to leave behind anything permanent. The advantage of training is that it trains human beings and there's nothing more permanent than a human being...