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Before the election in November, however, Democratic Governor Bert Combs issued an executive order outlawing segregation in businesses licensed by the state. Breathitt's Republican opponent, Louis Nunn, attacked him on this issue vigorously. Still Breathitt's polls showed him leading Nunn with 58 per cent up until election day. Breathitt won by a bare majority...
...good show better, Disney employs all the vast magicmaking machinery at his command. The sets are luxuriant, the songs lilting, the scenario witty but impeccably sentimental, and the supporting cast only a pinfeather short of perfection. Protean Dick Van Dyke is uneasy with his accent but nonetheless nimble as Bert, the cockney chimney sweep, whether hoofing it with a quartet of penguins or leading the sooty male chorus in a raffish rooftop ballet. Ed Wynn, as the risible Uncle Albert, floats upward every time he laughs, and soon has everyone aloft for the movie's most engaging scene...
...York City, where Bert Powers of the International Typographical Union was able to silence Manhattan dailies for 114 days (TIME cover, ' March 1, 1963), Detroit's newspaper strike was a measure of the power of one stubborn man. Only one other union joined Frazee's walkout: the paper and plate handlers' union. The other twelve newspaper unions in Detroit, having long since signed new contracts, ; are fretting to get back to work...
...coverage itself were news. Jack Gould, the New York Times's TV critic, systematically lumps TV newscasts in with Dr. Kildare, and gives both the same sort of critical going-over. After last month's conference of state governors in Cleveland, Plain Dealer TV Columnist Bert...
FOXY. Agile in the choreography of cowardice, Bert Lahr leers maniacally, gargles dialogue, and scurries up the scenery in this zany musical about fool's gold in the Yukon...