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...myriad details of this week's wedding is the First Family's social secretary, Elizabeth Clements Abell, 34. Working from a sheaf of check lists and a mammoth plastic-covered map of the White House on which the nuptial traffic flow is charted with a grease pencil, Bess Abell has organized the operation down to the last hairdresser's appointment and millimeter of guest space (2 sq. ft. per person). The last White House wedding of a President's offspring was in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor married Treasury Secretary William McAdoo...
THANKSGIVING DAY PARADES (CBS, 10 a.m. to noon). Arthur Godfrey (in Toronto), Bess Myerson and Mike Douglas (New York), Jack Linkletter and Marilyn Van Derbur (Philadelphia) and Fran Allison (Detroit) give curbside comment on a medley of parades...
...five. Starting from scratch as a messenger boy in a Wall Street brokerage house, Emil Sr. had already climbed so far as an investor that he could buy "Brook Hills," a 43-acre estate in White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered comfortably in Palm Beach; summers were given oyer to sailing on Long Island Sound, first in the family shell boat, and then, when Bus was nine, in his own boat: a Star. That August, with...
SAMUEL GOLDWYN'S "PORGY AND BESS" (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1959), with Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Dorothy Dandridge and Pearl Bailey...
...career," he said, "that unless we had somebody of another faith on the show, it wouldn't go on." Thus it was no accident that at various times Funt shared M.C. duties with Arthur Godfrey and Durward Kirby. Ironically, his current co-host is onetime Beauty Queen Bess Myerson-who is Jewish...