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...Toronto, radio station CHUM daringly dropped all its western serials, quiz programs and disk jockeys, to concentrate on "melodic" music and news. Explained Program Director Mrs. Leigh Lee: "We think there is a big audience that is sick to death of too much disk-jockey chatter. No one cares a damn that Eddie Fisher was wearing pajamas when he cut this disk, or that Hugo Winterhalter broke three fingers while conducting a number. By playing purely music we may bring back that lost audience...
...exact identity of all the judges is still a secret. Those known to have the ill-rewarding but pleasant job are Dr. Edwin Hunt, University anthropologist, Carroll F. Miles, Dunster House Senior Tutor, and Leigh Headley, Master of Leverett House. Rumors on who the other judges may be range from a noted researcher on female behavior to one of the trainers on a local football staff...
...decided to allow all officers' and NCOs' clubs to sell hard liquor over the bar. Though it admonished commanders to "encourage abstinence, enforce moderation and punish overindulgence," and forbade bar drinks for soldiers under 21, last week's directive promptly brought a protest from Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. "More than 20,000 ex-uniformed alcoholics have passed through veterans' hospitals in the last three years," said Mrs. Colvin sternly. "The new order will double this number...
Actor Sir Laurence Olivier and his Actress-Wife Vivien Leigh, after cruising the Mediterranean with Cinemagnate Sir Alexander Korda on his 150-ton yacht Elsewhere, were back in London for another busy theater season. They began rehearsals for their new play, The Sleeping Princess (Actress Leigh's first stage role since recovering from last spring's nervous breakdown), and were photographed helping famed British Actress Helen Haye* (still going strong playing the Dowager Empress of Russia in Anastasia) blow out the candles at her 79th birthday party...
Sparkling, bright-eyed but still pale after four months of fighting for recovery from her physical and nervous collapse, Actress Vivien Leigh appeared at a London party in her honor and was sure she would be onstage again in the fall, alongside Husband Sir Laurence Olivier. She traced the beginning of her illness back to her 1949 London performance in A Streetcar Named Desire ("A grueling nine months' run-it took a lot out of me"). The heat of moviemaking in tropical Ceylon last winter and the long flight back to Hollywood had been the last straw...