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...Baltimore, under a rule adopted by the board of school commissioners back in 1905, the daily opening exercises in the city's public schools included the "reading, without comment, of a chapter in the Holy Bible and/or the use of the Lord's Prayer." Madalyn E. Murray, self-professed atheist and mother of two school-age sons, brought suit to get the rule repealed...
...test pilot, flew patrol duty in the Aleutians in Martin PBM-15 ("The bearskin flying suits stank like hell"), catapulted off a turret top of the cruiser U.S.S. Cincinnati in SOC-15, patrolled the Canal Zone in PBYs. Stationed in San Diego in the 19305, Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them to "stay on my tail." Few could. Invariably...
...family next door and serve as foils and friends for Desi and Lucille. Academy Award-winning Karl (The Good Earth) Freund supervises the three cameras, and Director Marc Daniels (soon to be replaced by Bill Asher) gives Lucy its rattling pace. The writers-Jess Oppenheimer, Bill Carroll and Madalyn Pugh-turn out scripts that do not impose too much on the audience's credulity and are reasonably free of cliches. The writers are held in an esteem not common in TV. Lucille bombards Jess Oppenheimer with photographs flatteringly inscribed to "the Bossman," and Desi has presented him with...
...refused, said the insult had been meant for Mussolini, whom he would gladly fight any day. General Italo Balbo, then commander of all the militia, thereupon challenged him. Peppino still wanted Musso lini. So he shook off the dust of Italy, moved to the U. S. He married Mrs. Madalyn Nichols Taylor of New Orleans, settled down in Manhattan, where he did some radio broadcasting, and in Connecticut, where he tinkered with a Diesel motor of his own design. When he thought about Mussolini...