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  2. <title>
  3. (1940s) Tennessee Williams
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  5. <history>
  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights   
  7. PEOPLE                                               
  8. </history>
  9. <article>
  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
  11. <hdr>
  12. Tennessee Williams
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  14. <body>
  15. <p>(December 15, 1947)
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  17. <p>     Mississippi-born Playwright Tennessee Williams, 33, perhaps
  18. the surest weaver of vapors now writing for the U.S. stage, is
  19. a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he
  20. explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering
  21. writer...clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and
  22. holding on tight with raw fingers"--years in which he worked as
  23. bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse
  24. handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village
  25. bistro.
  26. </p>
  27. <p>     In 1945 came "the catastrophe of success"--Broadway's delight
  28. over The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams suddenly felt like
  29. "a sword cutting daisies" and hurried off to Mexico to work
  30. toward his high theatrical goal: "Great theater," says he, "is
  31. the highest and purest form of religion."</p>
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  34. </article>
  35. </text>
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