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...evening belongs to their el ders. Jazz Singer Edith Wilson, who made her Town Hall debut in 1921, shows that she can still command the stage with a witty, mischievous He May Be Your...
...Lear and Haley would only remember their roots, they should soon bring on a new Edith Bunker or Chicken George to stir Palmerstown...
DIED. Baroness Edith Summer skill, 78, feisty former chairman of Britain's Labor Party (1954-55) and lifelong women's rights advocate; of a heart attack; in London. A practicing physician, Summerskill won a seat in Parliament in 1938 and shocked fellow M.P.s by insisting on retaining her maiden name. Though she lost her campaign to have housewives paid for their domestic labors, she won legislative battles to ensure women equal status with their husbands in property rights and other financial matters...
...Norwegian sailmaker who had gone to Antarctica with Roald Amundsen and Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Ronne joined Byrd's 1933 expedition there as a radio operator and dogsled driver. Over the next 25 years, he returned to the South Pole eight times (thrice with his wife Edith, one of the first women to make the trip). On a 15-month trek in 1946-48, he disproved the notion that the continent was divided in two, and finished charting the Weddell Sea coast, the earth's last unsurveyed shore...
...Amendment. Currently on a ten-city tour with a production of George Kelly's Daisy Mayme, she has been steering limousine services onto the road toward employment equality by requesting female drivers whenever she needs a chauffeur. A feminist, Stapleton has been able to have her cake and Edith too. In Boston, two women drivers were added to a once all-male payroll, and in Washington, she was expertly guided through the city's busy streets by Joann Wernke, 24. In Seattle, how ever, Stapleton suggested that a local limo service was taking the wrong route by keeping...