Word: hitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical version of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Some of the lyrics were unfortunate ("We think more of the bell than the belly . . ."); the chorus of happy villagers was led by a blonde Anna Maria Alberghetti while Barry Sullivan-like a supporting player in Your Hit Parade-stood around changing his expression from sad to happy to suit her musical sentiments...
...Furness, who this week begins her seventh TV year for Westinghouse. She is also seen by the most people-an estimated 65 million a week-and she appears on all three networks, plugging Lincolns for CBS's Ed Sullivan Show, Hudnut hair products for NBC's Your Hit Parade, and LIFE on ABC's John Daly news show. Like most of her rivals, Julia started out as an actress. Born in Boston, she was encouraged by her mother, Caroline Meade-who once trouped with Walter Hampden -to go to the Yale Drama School. When she went...
Through the stories ran common themes; e.g., the Northern Negro is most heavily hit by private-housing barriers imposing geographical segregation that often makes a farce of the North's free dom from segregation in the schools. They also told a story of progress, pointed out that the weight of Northern opinion and law supports the Negro's fight for first-class citizenship-in contrast with the Deep South's defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court's integration decision. Wrote the Chicago Tribune's Reporter Ottley: "There are Negroes who complain that progress...
...sold batting great (lifetime average: .334) whose famed foot-in-the-bucket stance was the nemesis of Big League pitchers for most of his 21-season career (1924-44); of a heart attack; in Milwaukee. As a Philadelphia outfielder in the heyday of Connie Mack's Athletics, Simmons hit over .300 for eleven straight seasons, copped the American League batting title...
Happy Ending. In Vancouver, B.C., arrested for attempted murder of his nephew, Gordon Everts told the cops: "I held him while my wife hit him with an ax. This is the first time she acted like a woman-not a mouse-when I asked her to do something...