Word: greers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tiny (pop. 550) Tioga, Texas, early in the month, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 74, became a formal church member for the first time when he joined Lone Star Primitive Baptist Church.* The conversion took place in a white frame church, after a Sunday sermon, when Elder Henry Greer Ball, a grocer on weekdays, asked if anyone present would like to accept Jesus Christ. Up stepped Sam, taking off tie, jacket and shoes. Then, wearing socks, trousers and white shirt, the Speaker of the House was completely immersed for a moment in a portable baptistry before he emerged dripping...
Recollections at 30 (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC). A 1939 salute to Britain's royal family, with Hostess Gertrude Lawrence, Vivien Leigh, Basil Rathbone, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Greer Garson, George M. Cohan, Leslie Howard...
...steaks, beer for a quarter, and have a quarter left for tomorrow." He did his own housework, including mending and pressing his tailor-made suits, always impeccably kept. Periodically, there was work for his five-man combo-Arthur Whetsel on trumpet, Otto Hardwick on bass and alto, Sonny Greer on drums and Elmer Snowden on banjo-but the real break came in 1927. "You know, I'm lucky," says Duke. "I'm lucky because I like pretty music-some people don't-and can write it down. And I was lucky when we auditioned for the Cotton...
...United Artists) confirms the Hollywood truism that one scrappy Yank is more than a match for three brutal Nazis. Richard Widmark, an ex-war correspondent, big-game hunter and bestselling novelist, is tracked down in Mexico by Girl Reporter Jane Greer, whose assignment is to discover why he has stopped writing. Soon Widmark sobs out the terrible truth (while he was shooting lions in Africa, his wife and best friend were making beautiful music together). Jane is so moved that she starts back for Manhattan without her story. Aloft in Widmark's personal plane, the two of them crash...
Cohen will anchor the shuttle hurdle team to Carter, Art Martin, and Robertson. McCurdy will probably enter his top mile relay of Robertson Jim Cairns or Al Wills, French Anderson, and anchorman Dick Wharton. Morris, Williams, Reider, and Wilson will form the two-mil relay and Mayo, Carter, Greer, and Bruck will...