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Married. Nina Foch, 30, blonde cinemactress (Executive Suite); and James Lipton, 29, TV soap-opera actor; she for the first time, he for the second; in Brooklyn...
...yachtsman and onetime Secretary of the Navy (1929-33); after long illness; in Boston. He became an ardent Hoover supporter, but as Navy Secretary bitterly opposed Hoover's reductions in naval appropriations. America's leading yachtsman, he skippered the Resolute to victory over the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV in the 1920 America's Cup races, at the age of 73 brought off an unparalleled sweep of U.S. yachting's triple crown: the Puritan, Astor and King's Cups. A shrewd lawyer and financier, he raised Harvard's investments from...
...When it comes to the chicken in Lipton's soup, you've got to have faith,"Godfrey was saying. "Just like it says in the Bible. You know-the Book of Hebrews, Chapter 11, Verse one: 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen' [laughter]. Or as it says in the Book of John, Chapter 20, Verse 29: 'Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed.' But don't go lookin' in the soup. It's there, but you'll never...
Televiewer Ackerman promptly blew his top at this novel use of Holy Writ. With William A. Chapman, founder of the World Home Bible League, he tore off telegrams to Godfrey and Lipton's: "Shameful, sacrilegious . . . intolerably obnoxious . . . loose disrespect . . . one of the lowest notes in television history...
Last week Ackerman received a reply from Lipton's: "Like you, we were completely surprised at his reference to Scriptures. An entirely different commercial message has been prepared for him in connection with our product. Therefore, Mr. Godfrey's action . . . was without any prior knowledge or approval on our part . . . and we have already taken this matter up with Mr. Godfrey." But by week's end any Godfrey reaction to the matter was as invisible as the chicken in the soup...