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...circumspect about your faith too if your father had made you wear a kilt to Sunday services as a kid. "He hadn't given an awful lot of thought to these kinds of issues until he started running for President last year," says Forbes supporter Gordon Humphrey. Nor had Forbes spent much time communing with the more demonstrative branches of Protestantism. "As an Episcopalian, he never rubbed shoulders too much with Baptists and those who fall into the category of religious conservatives...
Larrabee's husband, Eric Larrabee '43, died in December 1990. She is survived by her brother, John Doermann, and another brother, Humphrey Doermann '52, of St. Paul, Minn
...owns $63 million of ITT stock, and Dunlap, who has no financial stake in either Hilton or ITT, strenuously deny any tag-team effort. "I didn't even know Michael owned the stock," Dunlap protests. The Price camp calls any alleged teamwork "pure fiction." But if nothing else, as Humphrey Bogart told Claude Rains in the famous last line of Casablanca, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
This was just the fieldwork. Coe also chose scripts, fought with sponsors over the hiring of blacklisted actors, scoured the theater scene for talent. He enticed stars, from Jose Ferrer (Coe put Cyrano de Bergerac on TV between its Broadway run and the Kramer film adaptation) to Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda (for a Producer's Showcase staging of The Petrified Forest) to Frank Sinatra (who, in the musical version of Our Town, sang Love and Marriage). Coe's 1955 airing of the Mary Martin Peter Pan was the highest-rated show in the young medium's history...
Inning eight, Boise: The kids come out to rerun the truck race. The crowd cheers. This time, the mascot, Humphrey the Hawk, starts the race by bringing down his wing. The little girl wins and is loudly applauded. The Hawks widen their lead to a solid 11 runs...