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Born. To Dorothy Collins (real name: Marjorie Chandler), 31, Canadian-born singer, longtime (1950-57) Be Happy, Go Lucky girl of TV's Your Hit Parade, and Bandleader Raymond Scott (real name: Harry Warnow), 47: their second child, second daughter; in Manhasset, N.Y. Name: Elizabeth. Weight...
Last week the Trib's pressagent, Tex McCrary of TV-radio fame, admitted that at its present rate the Trib stood to lose $1,000,000 in the fiscal year ending in July 1959, conceded that Jock Whitney, his wartime friend and peacetime neighbor (Manhasset, L.I.), was considering taking over controlling interest in the Trib as a price for his help...
Died. Caswell (Cas) Adams, 51, witty, gently satiric sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune and Journal-American, King Features); following a cerebral stroke suffered Feb. 10; in Manhasset, N.Y. Generally credited with coining the name "Ivy League," Adams co-authored (with H. T. Webster) humor books (How to Torture Your Wife), broke the story (in November 1941) of football's greatest spoof-the mythical Plainfield Teachers College, invented by Stockbroker Morris Newburger, which each Saturday "defeated" fictitious opponents (Scott, Randolph Tech) largely through the exploits of a hard-running Chinese back named John Chung. After New York newspapers solemnly printed...
With Harrison onstage night after night playing My Fair Lady, Kay spends her time touring theaters (she claims to have seen all on-and off-Broadway shows) or listening to American jazz (old Bessie Smith records) in their rented Manhasset, N.Y. home. "I've had too many years of rushing around from hotel to hotel and town to town and waking up alone in the morning." At 31, Kay Kendall says: "It's a joy for me to have a home, dogs and husband-not necessarily in that order...