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...Richard Clarke Cabot Professorship of Social Ethics, endowed by the Ella Layman Cabot Trust Fund, will deal with modern society's ethical questions...
...DEAN MARTIN SHOW (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis and Shelley Berman are among the guests...
Weaver's wife Ella is an auburn-haired, fair-skinned North Carolinian who has a University of Michigan master's degree and a Northwestern University Ph.D. in speech. She did her undergraduate work at the Carnegie Tech drama department from 1929 to 1932 despite an unwritten policy that no Negroes were allowed. Everyone thought she was white-including the all-white Southern Club of Pittsburgh, which awarded her at the end of her sophomore year a scholarship for being the top Dixie-bred student...
Before Mort Weaver's death, Ella was his steady girl; afterward she began to date Robert, and in 1935 they were married. Ella is still frequently mistaken for a Caucasian and seldom volunteers a correction. "I don't say, 'Hello, I'm a Negro,' just as you wouldn't say, 'Good morning, I'm a Catholic' or whatever you are," she says. The Weavers have no children; an adopted son died three years ago in a game of Russian roulette...
...evening I'll have Louis Armstrong on one side and Ella Fitzgerald on the other. I want five of the greatest impressionists and get five James Cagneys going at once. It's not going to be all fun. The pressures are there. The responsibility of being the first Negro with a big TV show is there. All I really want to do now is handle all of it with a swinging dignity...