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After her parents' divorce, pretty Angeline and her mother stayed in Pittsburg, where Ethel Crowell (who was also a pretty blonde) taught social science in the high school, and was married and divorced a second time. During the Depression, Mrs. Crowell operated a four-hack taxicab company in Kansas...
"Separately, they were able to keep themselves under control. But when they were together they infected one another with the sort of tension each might be feeling at the moment, and built it up tremendously. It was like that with everything, and that obviously was what happened in the case...
Though lacking sharpness, A View is for most of the way powerful and tense. Only near the end do things slacken, so that the play concludes with no great tragic impact. This may partly lie in Van Heflin, who, playing a character that Miller made more obsession than man, is...
From Pearl Harbor to an Obsession
Grover placed second in Rhode Island's Matanuck Beach-Block Island race in 1950 and fifth in a 1954 endurance swim at Atlantic City, N.J., in 1954. His interest in long distance swimming grew almost maniacal, so much so that it developed into an obsession which dominated his thinking and...