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...died at an un-mellowed 94 in 1950, he had made a bequest to provide a handsome subsidy to renovate the English alphabet. A hater of diphthongs and illogical pronunciations, Alphabetterer Shaw wanted the ABCs stretched to 40 letters on a one-sound, one-letter plan. Tart-tongued Lady Astor took one look at her old friend's idea and pronounced it ridiculous. The British Museum, one of Shaw's three institutional heirs, now wants the court to quash Shaw's bizarre bequest on the ground that a newfangled alphabet would not benefit the community...
Died. Irene Langhorne Gibson, 83, the "Original Gibson Girl," widow of Artist Charles Dana Gibson, second of the "five beautiful Langhorne sisters of Virginia" (including Britain's Lady Astor); in Greenwood. Va. As pictured by her husband, with her sweetly haughty expression, hourglass figure and stylish pompadour, she became the gaslight era's symbol of genteel femininity, influenced the dress, manners and flirtations of a generation of U.S. girls...
...Tomorrow makes womem melt their white lace collars and soak their pink handkerchiefs at the Astor. Susan Hayward gives a sensitive portrayal of the life of singer and ex-alcoholic Lillian Roth. Shows...
...Tomorrow, but it opens today, which brings tears sooner. Susan Hayward finds "Grief spurs the alcohol habit" but thankfully "Real help comes from 'Bert', an ex-alcoholic (Eddie Albert) who gives her a tortuous 'drying out.'" Look magazine loved it. At the Astor...
...Sheraton Astor Hotel on Times Square more than 2,000 Democrats sat down to filet mignon at the New York State Committee's annual $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner. As between party members, it was all quite impartial. The leading candidate for President, Adlai Stevenson, campaigning in California, could not attend, but he telegraphed "love and affection." Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, the only other announced candidate, was there on the dais (ready to hop off for California), but his presence did not mean that this was his crowd. That peripatetic "inactive" candidate, New York...