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When Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire arrives in Russia, it will have a happy ending. Just how . happy, no one seems to know, least of all Author Williams. The Russians, it seems, are rewriting the play more to their hearts' desire. Williams doesn't mind the rewrite, but he regrets something else: no royalties. Russia has never signed an international copyright agreement. The resigned Tennessee says, "I understand they hold the royalties and give them to you when you go there. Then you live in high style...
...Harvard alumnus"-he dropped out after freshman year. He returned to teach briefly at St. George's, where, he said, "I lost my entire nervous system carving lamb for a table of 14-year-olds." He tried selling bonds in New York; later there was a job writing streetcar advertising, which led him to the advertising department of the publishers Doubleday, Doran & Co. Then he found what he called "my field-the minor idiocies of humanity...
...14th Party Congress in Moscow. By then Khrushchev had discarded his mother's intensely religious training, fathered two children, lost his first wife during the famine of 1921 and married his second, Nina. Khrushchev recalls how, the first morning after reaching Moscow, he tried to take a streetcar to the Kremlin, but didn't know which number to take and ended up getting lost. He took to skipping breakfast so that he could get a front seat near Stalin at the meetings...
...streetcar no longer runs on Desire Street, but New Orleans does have a housing project there named Desire. It is torn by frustrations and passions as brutal as anything in Tennessee Williams' play. It is also as dirty, crime-ridden and crowded as any black ghetto in the North. Of its 10,500 residents, 61% belong to families that earn less than $3,000 a year. Alarmed by the report of one of his black appointees, who described the area as "potentially explosive," Mayor Moon Landrieu was scheduled to make a tour of it last week. The slum erupted...
...when people were peddling apples and breadlines were forming. But on the whole, don't forget, the highest unemployment was less than 20%." A Chicago M.D. with many patients among laboring men remembers things differently. "People starved on the street. Every day somebody would faint on a streetcar. I remember an ominous march down Michigan Avenue one day. It was about '34. A very silent, scraggly march of the unemployed. Nobody said anything. Just a mass of people flowing down that street. In their minds, I think a point was reached: We're not gonna take...