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...Pleasure of His Company (Paramount) is requested at the wedding of Miss Debbie Reynolds to Mr. Tab Hunter at Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, San Francisco. Because the requested company is that of debonair Fred Astaire, playboy father of the bride, there is bound to be some bounce. And with Lilli Palmer, Fred's ex-wife and the bride's mother, handling the arrangements, one can expect grace and polish. But otherwise, it is a Nytol nuptial. Where the 1958 Broadway play (by Samuel Taylor "with" Cornelia Otis Skinner) set in motion a sea of social-comedy soap bubbles...
...Palm Beach Judge Joseph A. Peel Jr., 37, guilty of masterminding the murder of Judge Curtis E. Chillingworth who, with his wife, was bludgeoned and drowned in the Atlantic in 1955 (TIME, Nov. 14). Prosecutor Phillip O'Connell, an old friend of the murdered man, charged that the debonair Peel had feared that the protection he was selling to moonshiners and numbers men was about to be exposed by the respected Chillingworth, and so hired thugs to kill him. Facing life imprisonment after the jury recommended mercy, Peel defiantly told newsmen: "I wasn't a bit satisfied...
Main Stream & Footnotes. With impressive endurance, both network staffs clung to the story through dawn and into daylight, remaining well made up and coherent, with Cronkite growing ever more debonair as fatigue mounted all about him. CBS finally quit at 7 a.m., continuing spot coverage an hour later, while NBC stuck it out until 7:30. By then, Brinkley grandly and unilaterally announced Kennedy's election ("NBC has just awarded him California"), and Dave Garroway, NBC's regular morning glory, took over...
This is not my picture of America. I think we are strong and healthy and debonair and young. We will not have a recession. But if we do--and we will not--but if we should (and we won't), I would not hesitate to take any measures for the safety of this healthy nation, including the appointment of Mr. Hoover. But, of course...
Died. A. E. (for Alfred Edward) Matthews, 90, peppery, debonair British actor, who trouped the world in more than 300 plays in 73 years (the first 67 without missing a performance) ; in Bushey Heath, England...