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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defending champions in tonight's finals are: Richard Thoman, Yale, 100 backstroke; Donald Sheff, Yale, 100 freestyle; Wayne Moore, Yale, 440 freestyle; Owen Davies, Navy, three-meter dive; Yale (Thomas, Stanton Smith, Sheff), 300 medley relay...
...first walk-on part when I was 13 months old"). His father was a County Cork strongman and circus leaper who could spring from a trampoline over the backs of four elephants. His mother was so determined a trouper that she kept on performing until three days before Donald was born, 27 years ago. With his parents and six brothers & sisters, Donald toured the U.S. three times before he was out of knee pants. He didn't see the inside of a school until he was ten and enrolled in a Hollywood kindergarten. By then, death had begun...
Hopped-up Pace. Last week Donald was working harder and more happily than ever before. He spent two days shooting Walking My Baby Back Home, took three days off to put together this week's Comedy Hour (he revised all the dances in the show, wrote part of the skits, ad-libbed additions to his routine with Sid Miller, and sang a ballad, Dreaming, for which he wrote the music and Miller the words). In spare moments throughout the week, he met with his associates in Donald O'Connor Enterprises, Inc., dozed through the Hollywood premiere of Call...
This hopped-up pace, which gives him an income of about $150,000 a year, would flatten many a man more robust than 135-lb, O'Connor. But, except for a tendency to colds, Donald seems to thrive on it. In addition to becoming a TV fixture, he has signed contracts with Fox, Paramount and Universal-International to do six movies during the next two years (one of them: White Christmas, in which he will co-star with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney). Says Donald with satisfaction: "It's great, being busy. After you spend 26 years entertaining...
Divorced. Donald W. Douglas, 60, veteran planemaker and president of Douglas Aircraft Co.; by Charlotte Ogg Douglas, 61; after 36½ years of marriage, five children; in Los Angeles...