Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julie Harris, Alfred Drake, Katharine Cornell, Charles Boyer, Ed Wynn. Mrs. Alberg's credo: "Other shows try to make popular things good. We try to make good things popular." They have. While many other dramatic shows (Studio One, Kraft Theater, Climax!) are rumored to have dismal prospects of autumn survival, Hall of Fame is already signed to produce its regular six-a-year slate of shows next year...
...front pages. Less than 24 hours after the tête-à-tête, Townsend's solicitor issued a statement from his client: "There are no grounds whatever for supposing that my seeing Princess Margaret in any way alters the situation declared specifically in the autumn of 1955" (when she told the nation that she would not marry the divorced onetime royal equerry). Still smiling, the Queen returned to England at week's end. Pale and unsmiling, Margaret flew to West Germany to inspect two army units. Somber as ever, ex-Suitor Townsend...
...riveting with curses in half a dozen languages. Forty-four nations are striving to ready their pavilions for the Brussels World's Fair, which opens April 17. Behind the fair's grand display of bunting, chrome, cantilevers and parasol domes lies a deeply serious purpose. By next autumn, some 35 million visitors (all Brussels hotels are booked solid for three months after the fair opens) will file through the gates, judge and compare the nations by what they see before them...
...panning fictional gold (Show Boat, Saratoga Trunk) have taught canny Prospector Ferber where to find the pay lode. Her heroine, Christine Storm, is beautiful enough to still the growl of a Malemute, so passionate about her native Alaska that she would not swap a fox parka for an autumn-haze mink. Grandpa Kennedy is a tycoon, but she prefers Grandpa Thor Storm. The name should prepare readers for the fact that he has noble Norwegian blood...
Died. Rush Roberts (also known as Fancy Eagle), 98, last survivor of the 100 Pawnee scouts recruited by the U.S. Army in the autumn of 1876 to help avenge the death of General George A. Custer; in Pawnee, Okla. The expeditions assisted by the Pawnees were moderately successful, but never got the best of the Sioux victors of the Little Bighorn River: Chief Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull...