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Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). The Hunters, with Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan and May Britt. Color...
WHEN James Britt Donovan finished college, he asked his father to buy him a newspaper. That request was typical of Donovan's positive-thinking approach to life. At New York's Fordham University, where his classmates voted him "best all-round man," he had prepared for a career in journalism, and it seemed sensible to start out as owner-editor-publisher of his own newspaper rather than as a cub reporter on somebody else's. His father, a high-fee New York surgeon, agreed to buy his son a newspaper, but he laid down a condition: James...
Died. Edward Britt ("Ted") Husing, 60, radio voice of U.S. sports for two decades, whose golden tones and rapidfire 400 words-per-minute delivery kept two generations of football, boxing, track and golf fans with their ears to the loudspeaker; after a long illness; in Pasadena. A born and forever-after confirmed New Yorker, Husing tried various jobs, from carnival barker to seaplane pilot, before getting his first chance on radio in 1924, fibbing that he had a Harvard degree, and proving that he could "talk longer and louder" than any of the 600 other applicants for a WJZ announcer...
...made it a crime for Swedes to supply ships such as Bon Jour with either naval stores or advertising copy. Cut off from both necessities, Thompson hauled down his flag. Two other radio ships were also affected. One of them gave up. But the owner of the third, Mrs. Britt Wadner, said defiantly that she had three months' supplies of stores and commercials, would keep on broadcasting...
Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Sammy Davis Jr. and May Britt are not the only ones; what Jewish Journalist Gershon Jacobson calls a "rash of conversions" to Judaism is under way in the U.S., with more than 2,000 Christians a year trading New Testaments...