Carol Bruce
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"Carol Bruce" was an American band singer, Broadway star, and film and television actress. She was born "Shirley Levy" in Great Neck, New York to Beatrice and Harry Levy.

She began her career as a singer in the late 1930s with Larry Clinton and his band. A graduate of Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York, she made her Broadway debut in Louisiana Purchase," with songs by Irving Berlin who discovered her at a nightclub in Newark, New Jersey. She was the first actress to play the role of Julie in a Broadway production of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat since the 1932 Broadway revival. Bruce played the role onstage in 1946 and garnered favorable comparisons to Helen Morgan, who had originated the role onstage in 1927 and repeated it in both the 1932 revival and Show Boat (1936 film)/the 1936 film. After a long career as a singer and in films, Bruce is probably best-remembered for her recurring role as the domineering and meddlesome "Mama Carlson" (mother of the station manager played by Gordon Jump) on CBS' WKRP in Cincinnati. Sylvia Sidney played Mr. Carlson's mother in the Pilot episode.

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I'm a little dismayed that an election has come down to how did you vote on one issue. There are so many positive things that we're doing in this town and I think the way we're going to heal the community is to move forward get past the decisiveness we've seen and work together.

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I think people need to put in a driveway, load it up and get it out of there.

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I have been doing this [running for public office] since 1988 and I have never seen anything like this.

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We found some things that we feel confident there will be additional savings. And, we feel that we have raised the level of awareness about the fact that we need to be aware of cost in the future.

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Disclosure was not a big issue before because there's never been the kind of money thrown at a campaign like it appears there has been at this one. It's never been an issue because campaigns have typically been low-budget.

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We are recommending the design committee consider doing these changes. We believe there are additional savings to be realized.

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It's very unfortunate that apparently outside groups are putting large amounts of money into this election. It costs a lot of money to do polling.

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It's no burden, it's just one more piece of paper. I have no issues with disclosing, it's not a big thing. My only concern with disclosing would be people not being honest.

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There's been a lot of emotion that we haven't seen in other Town Council elections. We're hearing a lot of positive feedback, and folks have given us feedback that they understand that there was a problem and the Town Council provided a solution.

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