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Last week, Justice François Caron, a Catholic, handed down his decision: $400 damages and the costs of litigation for Jacob Nicol. The court held that the marriage was legal beyond doubt, that the girl, being 23 years old, had every right to enter into a marriage contract. A letter from the Abbe to Lucile was introduced in evidence. It said, in part, "You must remain free . . . the marriage at Newport means nothing . . . Nothing obliges you to marry him . . . May le bon Dieu help you in your decision." In the court's opinion, this "constituted not advice...
Every weekday evening (7 p.m., NBC-TV), Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran & Ollie brilliantly proves the rightness of his conviction. But in finding success, 32-year-old Tillstrom has lost his own identity. Like Singer Fran Allison, the only other human regularly on his show, he has been swallowed up by the puppet world he made. The world revolves around Kukla, a pinch-faced, sadly wise, sentimental puppet, and Ollie, a one-toothed dragon whose preenings and posturings might have been conceived by Moliére. It is also peopled by such types as Fletcher Rabbit, whose "mother...
...presents. But, large and devoted as is Kukla's children's audience, the show's delicately balanced humor has just as strong an appeal for adults. Before going on the air, the studio crew members talk to the puppets almost as they do with each other. Fran Allison refuses to go backstage because she feels ill at ease whenever she sees Kukla or Ollie hanging lifelessly upside-down from their hooks...
...Brien and Bob Graham the other. On the forward wall, Walt Greeley at center, flanked by Amory Hubbard at left wing and Norman Grant at the other outside post, appears a likely starter. The second offensive unit will be, from left to right, John Dunphy, "Dove" Harvey, and Fran Hardy...
...Center (founded in 1938 but dormant through war and occupation) now has about 3,000 members. They represent a small and dissident fraction of the hidebound Conseil National du Patronat Français (France's N.A.M.), which has 880,140 members and remains suspicious of the Young Employers' radical views. But the Young Employers are tireless evangelists. Originally their group was limited to employers under 40; now there is no age qualification, but members are expected to be "young in spirit...