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Tireless and imaginative. Stein has won the backing of the American Legion (he is a World War I veteran) and of such stage friends as Tallulah Bankhead, a longtime subscriber and general booster. Thanks largely to Stein and the Star, patients at Carville have established their right to vote (a technicality of state law once disfranchised them); their precinct is usually the first in the state to report. They have won the right to have visitors, a month's leave a year when their disease is quiescent. Stein will not rest until state and federal laws recognize that, except...
Fully aware that a few memories might have dimmed in the 16 years since she had last been seen and heard in England, Tallulah Bankhead gave the public a refresher course when she arrived in London to do a radio show. The course began with a press conference in the green and gold Marie Antoinette room of the Ritz Hotel...
Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...
...rebuke from League President Ford Frick for "popping off" to umpires); Fire-bailer Don Newcombe, ace of the Dodger pitching staff, who won 19 games last year; Catcher Roy Campanella, best in the National League (he caught all 14 innings of 1950's All-Star game); Pitcher Dan Bankhead...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead in Humoresque...