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...strides "Big Daddy." This time he is Boss Finley (Sidney Blackmer) a demogogic Southern politician, and he wears a yellow dressing gown instead of Burl Ives's white one. The first Big Daddy psychologically emasculated his son; this one threatens Chance Wayne with physical castration. It seems that Heavenly, the Boss's daughter, contracted a disease from Chance years ago and had to have a hysterectomy. In scenes of bogus dramaturgy, Boss Finley and his children snarl revelations at each other (e.g., he keeps a mistress) that should have been common family knowledge for years. Toward play...
...HAVEN, March 16--In a dramatic move designed to soothe town-gown bitterness caused by the St. Patrick's parade riot here Saturday, Yale University Deans today imposed "general probation" on the entire undergraduate body...
City and University officials were distressed over the collapse of town-gown relationships. Mayor Richard C. Lee was "too upset" to comment, and Griswold, calling the riots "boorishness," confined undergraduates to the campus until this morning...
Suffering from shock and bruised ribs, the Premier was moved from Mrs. Bailey's cottage to a private room on the third floor of London Clinic. It was there that Adnan Menderes, in pajamas and dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since...
...Express (circ. 4,084,603). Her weekly 8-in. column grew to a half page as she worked over tempting targets, from Labor's formidable Dr. Edith Summerskill ("Flossie bang-bang") to Queen Elizabeth; she once ran a picture showing the rumpled derriere of the Queen's gown, cattily commented that wrinkleproof fabric evidently was unknown at Buckingham Palace. Drawn by Anne's sharp, sure feline touch, women formed fully 46% of the Daily Express' readership...