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...ever passed the 1,000-performance mark stood at an even dozen. Now Mary, Mary has come along to make it a baker's dozen-and to serve up a yeasty $1,000,000 for Playwright Jean Kerr, 40. But she is almost too busy to spend her dough. Wife of the New York Herald Tribune's Drama Critic Walter Kerr, she is expecting her sixth child in October, has just sold her best-selling novel Please Don't Eat the Daisies to NBCTV, is finishing up her next play, Poor Richard, due on Broadway next year...
...quickly and as widely as possible." Evangelical anti-intellectualism reached its zenith in the revivalist Billy Sunday, who hated learning like hellfire. "What do I care," he scoffed, "if some little dibbly-dibbly preacher goes tibbly-tibbling around because I use plain Anglo-Saxon words? Jesus was no dough-faced, lick-spittle proposition. Jesus was the greatest scrapper that ever lived...
Hope's wedding dress was a wraparound, frost-white brocade silk mokey, held in at the waist by a gold belt, from which hung a small dagger. To ward off evil spirits, Hope pressed her hand into a piece of dough. A pair of holy men conducted her to the chapel, where she was greeted by a fanfare of trumpeting, 10-ft.-long Himalayan horns, braying conch shells, and booming bass drums. Outside the chapel door was the only distinctively American touch in the $60,000 Buddhist rite-a mat on which was written in English, "Good Luck...
Cassius has been taking up poetry recently. For example, he claimed, "I'm changing the pick I made before/instead of six, Dough goes in four." Earlier, Clay had warned Jones, "if you start any live you'll go in five...
...dough's savior was Neville Taylor, a public-information officer for the British Admiralty. Taylor told the three-man tribunal investigating Britain's John Vassall spy case that he was the source for the Clough story that had linked Vassall's leaks to Russia with the subsequent appearance of Soviet "trawlers" near a top secret NATO sea exercise in the Atlantic. Taylor's admission was enough to get Clough off the hook, but his testimony also shed a curious light on a Fleet Street reporter's ability to treat the flimsiest of conjectures as fact...