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YOUTH came to the fore at this year’s Gadoc One Act Play Festival, with 17-year-old Lily Becker carrying off three awards for her direction of Lockdown, which won another three awards besides.

Elizabeth Becker on the Groundbreaking Impact of Kate Webb, Catherine Leroy, and Frances FitzGerald February 23, 2021 When I encountered her at the Hong Kong airport, a cigarette dangling from her free hand, I had never met anyone like Kate Webb. It was January 1973, and I was on the penultimate leg of my flight from Seattle to Cambodia to become a war correspondent. She was immediately recognizable from the news photographs: the thick-cropped brown hair, shy smile, and intense brown eyes. Afte...