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Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 53, character actress who currently plays radio's "Beulah," the first Negro to win Hollywood's Academy Award (for 1939's best supporting performance, in Gone With the Wind); fourth husband Larry Williams, fiftyish, interior decorator; in Los Angeles, after she testified that their five months together had been marred by "arguing and fussing." Died. Oliver Frederick George Stanley, 54, witty Tory member of the House of Commons since 1924, onetime War Secretary (1940) and Colonial Secretary (1942-45); after long illness; in Reading, England...
...morning, 22-year-old William McGinnis came driving toward the plant in his 1937 Ford sedan; it was his first day of work as dishwasher in the plant cafeteria. With him was Victor McDaniel, a cafeteria counterman. When McGinnis reached the union's roadblocks, he swung off the road and skittered across a field of rye. Rifles and shotguns roared from the embankment. "The noise was awful," said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also...
...Well, I'm not throwing the Bullock you. Harvard has many an Ableman" quoth the wizened philosopher, taking a hitch in his Rawers. "We'll throw McDaniel into the Irosu...
...HOLCOMBE McDANIEL Baton Rouge...
...Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...