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Married. Carmen Burr Johnson, 33, widow and a trustee of the $5,000,000 estate of Arnold Johnson, owner of the Kansas City Athletics; and Warren Hume, 38, man about Palm Beach; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...Ways & Means Committee asked what Medicare would cost. Secretary Flemming's guesstimate: $1.2 billion annually, split fifty-fifty by federal and state governments. What would it cost by 1970? Flemming shrugged, said his staff was still calculating. "This is the worst kind of fiscal irresponsibility," cried Virginia Democrat Burr Harrison. "This Townsend Plan-Rube Goldberg scheme is more socialistic and more unsound than the Forand bill." Quipped another Democrat: "This plan calls for everything except prenatal care for persons over 65." Chairman Wilbur Mills, an Arkansas Democrat who has long supported Ike's crusades for a balanced budget...
Died. Mary Agnes ("Polly") Thomson, 75, longtime word-of-finger translator and "sister" to blind, deaf Author-Educator Helen Keller; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. Glasgow-born Polly Thomson, who never lost her Scottish burr, came to the U.S. in 1913, was hired by Helen Keller's formidable teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, as secretary, stayed on after "Teacher" died in 1936 asking that Helen and Polly-"my two children"-remain together. Polly's "talking" fingers, working at a rate of 85 words a minute tapping out letters in Helen Keller's palm, became Helen...
...week, she tilted back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr in an upbeat All or Nothing at All. In a white fringed shawl Songstress Carroll sat with a single spot shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk songs with powerfully restrained drama. Later she was on her feet again belting out a Heat Wave...
George G. Duffy, a sophomore, shot a 76 to win the James Henderson Memorial Golf Tournament, held Oct. 22 and 23 at the Sandy Burr Country Club, Wayland. Robert G. DePopolo was second with...