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<text id=93HT0260>
<title>
1940s: Tennessee Williams
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1940s Highlights
PEOPLE
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Tennessee Williams
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<p>(December 15, 1947)
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<p> Mississippi-born Playwright Tennessee Williams, 33, perhaps
the surest weaver of vapors now writing for the U.S. stage, is
a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he
explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering
writer...clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and
holding on tight with raw fingers"--years in which he worked as
bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse
handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village
bistro.
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<p> In 1945 came "the catastrophe of success"--Broadway's delight
over The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams suddenly felt like
"a sword cutting daisies" and hurried off to Mexico to work
toward his high theatrical goal: "Great theater," says he, "is
the highest and purest form of religion."</p>
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