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...felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said. It was at a meeting with G. B. Shaw when Lady Astor introduced me as the great blind and deaf social worker. She kept trying to impress the testy Shaw and make him take more notice of me. He was goaded into saying, 'All Americans are blind, deaf and dumb.' " As the listening newsmen politely registered indignation, Social Worker Keller...
...didn't have any fun." In search of fun, Goodie quit his lush practice and accepted Governor Merriam's appointment as a $9,000-a-year judge. But in spite of occasional sensations that came his way, e.g., the Barbara Stanwyck-Frank Fay divorce trial, the Mary Astor child-custody case, Judge Knight found the bench as dull as the bar. "I knew exactly how the cases I was trying were going to come out an hour after they began. But a judge can't shut a lawyer up. I used to sit on the bench...
Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Miami Judge Vincent O. Giblin finally decided what to do about the separation suit slapped on Fur Trader (four generations removed) John Jacob Astor III, 42, by his baby-faced third wife, Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26. Dolly, holding out for the standard $500,000 plum (the same amount Astor gave his first wife, and for which he is now being sued by his second), had offered hours of testimony to prove that J. J. was worse than a beast when aroused. Having characterized the testimony as' "the most...
Biographies in Sound (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). 'Bernard Shaw," with Lady Astor, Vincent Sheean, Norman Thomas, Leonard Lyons...
Elgin Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). The Thousand Dollar Window, with Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Astor...