Word: adano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. John Hersey, 43, author (A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima, The Wall), campaign speech writer for Adlai Stevenson, World War II TIME-LIFE foreign correspondent; and Mrs. Barbara Day Addams Kaufman, 37, first wife of The New Yorker's Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally, Home Bodies) Addams; he for the second time, she for the third; in Fairfield, Conn...
Star Boarder. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., jailers kept a special eye on new Convict (for robbery) Arthur Lariviere, who, as "The Great Adano" once won bookings with a circus as a result of a stunt escape from the Sault Ste. Marie jail...
...Showcase offered the 12-year-old Bloomer Girl. Like many Broadway musicals transferred to TV, it had some pleasant tunes and a deplorably outdated plot. At week's end CBS tried to cheer up viewers with its own musical version of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Some of the lyrics were unfortunate ("We think more of the bell than the belly . . ."); the chorus of happy villagers was led by a blonde Anna Maria Alberghetti while Barry Sullivan-like a supporting player in Your Hit Parade-stood around changing his expression from sad to happy to suit...
Ford Star Jubilee (Sat. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Musical version of A Bell for Adano, with Barry Sullivan, Anna Maria Alberghetti...
...most ambitious programs yet: a statewide survey of the needs of gifted children, in which laymen and professional educators will collaborate. Two groups will work on the survey. One. the Connecticut Committee for the Gifted, a state-appointed group, is headed by Author John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey, who has made the study of educational needs his avocation (he has four school-age children). The committee will try to focus attention on the whole Connecticut problem, set up workshops for teachers, introduce ideas that have worked well elsewhere, survey hitherto neglected rural areas...