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...Craig gave the award for six years prior to the war and all six plays proved financially successful. The first, Florence Lincoln's End of the Bridge ran nine weeks, then two weeks in Chicago, and was revived for two weeks in Boston the next year. The third, Frederick Ballard's Believe Me, Xantippo, ran 11 weeks, breaking all previous records for runs at the Castle Square and then moved to New York for 20 weeks in a production starring John Barrymore. After the war Oliver Morosco gave a similar award for two years, following which Richard Herndon established...
Died. Marshall Ballard, 73, longtime (1907-47) editor of the New Orleans Item; in New Orleans. A crony of Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places...
...mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner or Pogo." Moore's formula is convincing sponsors as well as viewers: this week Masland rugs joined his six other advertisers (Kellogg, Deepfreeze, Duff's Baking Mix, Ballard & Ballard, Best Foods and Stokely-Van Camp) to give him nearly a commercially full house for his 30-minute show...
...THRUSTON BALLARD MORTON, 45, to be an Assistant Secretary of State. Tall, husky (6 ft. 2 in., 184 Ibs.), and a youthful-looking hustler, Morton is a seventh-generation Kentuckian from Louisville, a Yaleman (class of '29), and formerly head of his family's flour mill firm, Ballard & Ballard, which was bought out by Pillsbury Mills in 1951. In World War II he served with the Navy, a lieutenant commander on minesweepers and destroyers in the Pacific. He has had three postwar terms as a Republican Congressman, is an outspoken internationalist, led the pro-Eisenhower forces in Kentucky...
Probable starting lineups: Harvard--Fisher, g; Laimbeer, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Hadik, rhb; Bigelow, chb; Little, lhb; Lingelbach, or; Holmes, ir; Goles, cf; Lloyd H; Truslow, ol; Exeter--Tyson, g; King, rfb; Sargent, lfb; Ballard, rhb; Hodnett, chb; Lamont, rhb; McIntosh, or; Gomez, ir; Martin, cf; Parker, il; Burlingame...