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...insight. All situation comedy is clockwork; what matters is who makes the clock. Like Jean Kerr, the heroine is a compulsive wisecracker: years ago, when her husband made his first tentative pass, she told him, "Let's not start something we can't finish in a taxi on 44th Street." Like Jean Kerr, another character is a fast shuffler of cliches: his recent de parture from Hollywood, explains the aging matinee idol, was an example of "the sinking ship leaving the rats." Like Jean Kerr, a third character is full of electric shock: "A lawyer," he says, "is never entirely...
...name of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Bandleader Benny Goodman presented the N.A.A.C.P.'s 44th annual Spingarn Award (for high achievement by an American Negro) to "an old and cherished friend." Added to such names as George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson, Richard Wright, Ralph Bunche and Jackie Robinson: the jazz world's Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington...
...days, in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri...
Mackinac, Mich. (Special)--David McCord, Norman Hall, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, Daniel S. Cheever, Director of Alumni Affairs, and Florence Kimball, Alumni Recorder, are at historic Mackinac Island, participating in the American Alumni Council's 44th General Conference, June 28 to July...
...over the Pirates put the Milwaukee Braves off to a running start at Pittsburgh in the opener of their '59 pennant drive. The victory was Warren Spahn's 44th Major League shutout...