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...lived at all, and a glorious opportunity, on the stars' part, for virtuoso acting. Actor Portman changes as brilliantly from an enraged but powerless bull to a neatly clipped but bleating, lamb as does Actress Leighton from a hard, sick, glossy siren to a sick, quivering dowd. And, as staged by Peter Glenville, both productions are consistently adroit theater, full of gaudy character acting and authoritative ensemble playing...
Schmidt is extremely telegenic and has good TV presence; and he provided brief but helpful commentary on each piece. Elaine Dowd (on short notice) and Polly Davis were the efficient accompanists...
...Southland," said John Howard O'Dowd to his fellow South Carolinians, "is becoming a place where nonconcurrence with the established orthodoxy is cause for rejection and social ostracism." As editor of the Florence, S.C. Morning News (circ. 14,219), young (29) O'Dowd knew whereof he spoke. Because he had broken "the established orthodoxy'' by calling for moderation on the desegregation issue, O'Dowd was pressured into dropping the whole subject of racial integration from the News's editorial page (TIME, April...
Nevertheless, threats against O'Dowd and his family and pressure on the newspaper, which his father, 68, had published since 1912, only increased. Last week Jack O'Dowd resigned "for my own good and the good of the paper." Next month he will join the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times as a reporter. Said O'Dowd regretfully: "I'm certain that the News no longer will buck racial feeling...
...What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married, in 1931, a fellow journalism student, Gladys Hope Dowd. They have four adopted children, including two World War II war orphans (one French, one German...