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Suitably stern when she played the wrinkled, lace-capped queen in NBC's Victoria Regina, Julie Harris, 36, melted in tears when the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded her an Emmy as best actress of the year. Two other figurines went to the 90-minute adaptation of Laurence Housman's 1935 play: for best show of the year and best supporting actress. Pamela Brown...
Died. Amy E. Archer-Gilligan, 93, seraphic Yankee poisoner who made a profession of arsenic and old lace from 1907 to 1916 at her tiny Windsor, Conn., old folks' home, where more than 20 paying guests-as well as her two husbands-died under suspicious circumstances, who stood trial and was found guilty of murder in one specific instance, but whose sentence was commuted from hanging to life imprisonment in 1919; in Connecticut Valley Hospital, Middletown, to which she was committed in 1924 as insane...
...Schirmer had sold out his interest to Sherman and his brother William. For a long time, Standard seemed doomed to the small time, even though the Shermans developed ways of converting the punched margins to typewriters and other business machines, competitors contemptuously dismissed Standard's punched forms as "lace panties" and "smallpox paper." Curfew at Midnight. During the Depression, Standard turned the corner by deciding to concentrate on producing specialized business forms-which now account for 96% of the company's gross...
Exchange of Gifts. Instead, one day last week the Moderator arrived a half-hour early at the Vatican, dressed in the lace-ruffed robe of his office. Pope John greeted him warmly and the two religious leaders talked for 38 minutes, agreed that "truth and liberty" must exist among all the world's Christians. After the meeting, Pope John presented Dr. Craig and his delegation with books and medals, and in return was given a silver bookmark and a stone from Lake Tiberius in the Holy Land. L'Osservatore Romano pronounced the Vatican "grateful" for the visit...
...powerful cleric in the Roman Catholic Church. As one of the most spectacular dressers of Christendom, he has to lay out at least $3,000 for his cassocks and skullcaps of scarlet and purple* (which are worn during Lent, Advent and other times of penance and mourning), his white lace rochets, silk sashes, and the splendid cappa magna - a 15-ft-long scarlet train worn on solemn liturgical occasions. As a member of the church's senate, a cardinal advises the Pope on church policy, helps run the Vatican's huge bureaucracy, and will elect...