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Liberal Protestants have long been among the most ardent supporters of a woman's right to abortion. Consider the Rev. Howard Moody of Manhattan's Judson Memorial Church. In 1967, more than five years before the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that prohibited abortions, the Baptist pastor organized a referral and counseling service for women seeking the then illegal procedure. Moody was a minister in the American Baptist Convention, a confederation of congregations that was adopting its own high-profile prochoice position. In 1968 the denomination officially sanctioned abortions during the first three months of pregnancy...
Born on July 16, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Thornburghwas the son of an engineer and grandson of aprofessor. He graduated from Yale in 1954 with adegree in engineering and went to law school, andpracticed law in Pittsburgh. He married his secondwife in 1963, Virginia "Ginny" Judson, who hasworked to help the handicapped and mentallyretarded...
...father made his daughter his partner, and dyed her brown hair black in an attempt to make her look more Latin. Precociously alluring as well as arrestingly attractive, Rita soon found a place in such B-grade movies as Under the Pampas Moon (1935). At 18 she married Edward Judson, a sometime auto salesman who at once saw what was wrong: her real appeal was not Latin but all-American. After lightening her hair, he introduced her to Harry Cohn, the shrewd, tyrannical head of Columbia Pictures, who substituted her Irish mother's surname, with a slight variation, and inserted...
Hollywood has decreed that love goddesses never find lasting love, and Rita's marriages unreeled like so many bad movies. After her 1943 divorce from Judson came Orson Welles, but "Orsie," with whom she had a daughter Rebecca, was devoted mostly to Orsie. "I'm tired of being a 25% wife," she later said. In 1949, with the whole world looking on, she wed the playboy Aly Khan, with whom she had her second daughter Yasmin. The match lasted only two years, but she remembered him fondly: "The world was magical when you were with him." There were two more...
...title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train for her to play with. Producer Mervyn LeRoy took the script of Quo Vadis? to the Vatican and had no trouble getting Pope Pius XII to bless...