Word: charlton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornelius ("Connie") Charlton was the eighth and biggest of Mrs. Van Charlton's 17 babies-he weighed 15 lbs. 8 oz. at birth-and he was a good boy from the time he could toddle. Unlike many other U.S. parents, the Charltons never thought for a moment that he would grow up to be President. The Charltons are Negroes...
...Connie's father, a thin, patient man, had toiled as a West Virginia coal miner for 38 years, and then, seeking opportunity, had moved the family to the noisy streets of The Bronx. All he had found were part-time jobs as a porter and sexton. In Mrs. Charlton's mind, soldiering would be a fine career. When Connie finished his freshman year in high school and enlisted in the Army, his mother kissed him goodbye as she had kissed his three brothers who served in World War II, and a fourth who enlisted after...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Bernard Shaw's Cashel Byron's Profession, with Charlton Heston, June Lockhart...
...movie's plot does not quite hold all this pageantry together, but De Mille's scripters and actors enter into the thing in the proper flamboyant spirit. Determined to extend a ten-week itinerary into a full season, Charlton Heston, the circus' gruff but devoted manager, promises his reluctant bosses (including John Ringling North himself) to show a profit. He imports Sebastian the Great (Cornel Wilde), a daring high-trapeze artist, thereby queering himself with Aerialist Betty Hutton, who must move out of the center ring. Betty starts a performing feud with Wilde, goads him into...
...lack of accord in their characterizations of the man Jesus and in their interpretations and applications of his teachings." Furthermore, in "an organized society of human beings founded upon the principle of separation of church and state," the courts cannot furnish a clarifying definition of Christian fundamentals themselves. Judge Charlton ordered the trustees of William Small's estate to hand over the assets to eight nieces and nephews...