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Splashed over three columns of the staid New York Law Journal was an account of how the feathers flew when gravel-voiced Comic Bert Lahr, 66, went to court over a duck who swiped his style. Back in 1961, Lahr slapped a $500,000 suit on the Adell Chemical Co., Inc. and a producer of TV commercials, for featuring a duck that sounded as if it had Lahryngitis. The actor speaking for the duck, quacked Lahr's lawyer, not only "misappropriated" Lahr's distinctive delivery, but also injured his reputation by giving the impression "that he was reduced...
...Mathewson's 58-year-old National League record. Koufax has now disposed of 952 batters in 948 innings-best strikeout record in history. > After one brief season in retirement, former Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 71, agreed to get back in uniform for one more year and exercise his gravel-voiced strategy from one more big-league dugout. Beginning next spring, Stengel will manage the New York Mets of the expanded National League...
...calls his "prayer in stone" is the contrast between the starkly modern new building of pink sandstone (on the outside) and cool concrete (on the inside) and the bombed ruins, which will form a kind of entrance to the cathedral. They will be kept as they are-grass and gravel where the pews once stood-and linked to the new structure by a covered arch...
Escort Salisbury is confident that the Russian journalists took something much more important than their souvenirs back to Moscow. "It's like a tire picking up bits of gravel in the tread," said he. "But in this case, the gravel is not going to work its way out. It's going to work in deeper and deeper. And that's going to remain a problem for these men all the rest of their lives...
Died. Joan Davis, 48, long-legged, gravel-voiced comedienne, star of radio's The Joan Davis Show and TV's / Married Joan series; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...