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Plow Tomorrow. Como tumbled before a program that is dedicated to finding out how many times the same joke can be repeated. Mountaineer Jed Clampett and his family, worth $25 million because oil was found in their swamp back in the Ozarks, have moved to Beverly Hills to live among the polychrome celebrities of show biz. Pa bought a house built by John Barrymore, and the place is easily large enough to be mistaken for a university. Pa takes an appreciative look at the smooth and gorgeous sweep of lawn and says, "Fine, we'll commence plowing tomorrow...
Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...
From the platform beside Dr. James L. Gordon, pastor of the church, and Dr. Frederick W. Clampett, formerly of Trinity Episcopal Church in San Francisco, Mr. Burbank smiled benignly down at the mass of men and women before him, their warmly sympathetic faces turned towards him. As he commenced to read, his high-bridged nose took on a stern aquilinity; the lines on his forehead and about his lips grew deeper. From time to time he looked up from his manuscript and down among his audience at a person here, a person there. Over such would pass first a qualm...
...Clampett, who led the prayer service, prayed: "For the great army of scientists, God, we praise Thee. Forgive their mistakes, sanctify their efforts, crown their conquests. Greater than creed is the pureness, the kindliness, the gentleness, the sweet serenity of his [Burbank's] life and character. For his services to humanity, his great contribution to science, his great love of his fellows and above all his love of little children, we praise Thee." Dr. Gordon with gentle wit, to sympathetic laughter, put his arm about Mr. Burbank, saying: "We would be delighted to receive Luther Burbank into the fellowship...