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...FAIRFIELD, CONN., Candlewood Theater. Sherry Britton does the bumps and grinds in Gems of Burlesque...
FALMOUTH, MASS., Playhouse. Chester Morris and Barbara Britton look at their children and ask What Did We Do Wrong...
...program that has already produced championship-caliber teams in golf, football and baseball. But basketball was luck. In 1964, Isaac Morehead, basketball coach at Texas Southern University, a predominantly Negro school, walked into the office of Houston Coach Guy Lewis and begged him to recruit a prospect from Eula Britton High School in rural Louisiana. The young man's name was Elvin Hayes; he played, said Morehead, like Bill Russell's younger brother. Morehead's reason for approaching Lewis was entirely self-protective. Hayes's two sisters had attended Southern University in Louisiana; his coach...
...tell jokes - at least not intentionally. His malapropisms ("I would like to prevent a new singer"), his carny-barker pleas for applause ("Let's hear it for the Lord's Prayer!"), and his pen chant for forgetting names (Singer Polly Bergen is invariably introduced as Bar bara Britton) are part of TV lore. His wincesome looks and quirky mannerisms-such as hunching his shoulders and reeling around like Quasimodo doing the lindy-still bring serious letters from shut-ins commending his courage for appearing despite such an obviously bad case of Bell's palsy. Jabbing and pointing...
...clear last night whether Radcliffe would buy the land. J. Boyd Britton, administrative vice-president, said "it's a very strategic piece of land" because of its location opposite the projected fourth house. He declined to say, however, what Radcliffe might build on the site, or to speculate on the chances that the college would actually make the purchase. President Bunting could not be reached for comment...