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...Meredith J. Kane, a student at the Law School, and a member of the slate, said last night that because she submitted her petition with more than 140 signatures yesterday, she expects no problems with her nomination...
Another variation on the reality theme is ABC's Those Amazing Animals, a sort of Games People Play for wildlife. Host Burgess Meredith runs footage of such wonders as two-headed snakes, spiders that square-dance and cannibalism among rats in overcrowded cages. While some of the reality shows are going strong, others are suffering from TV's penchant for overexploiting a popular idea. After four weeks, CBS last month dropped No Holds Barred, billed as a comedy series highlighting the "crackpot side of modern life" through the "oddball characters that make America unique." That...
...after a long illness; in Los Angeles. Russian-born Milestone won his first Oscar for a 1927 war comedy called Two Arabian Knights. He also directed the 1931 version of The Front Page, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien, the 1940 Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, and the 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, starring Marlon Brando...
...accounts for Max Beerbohm's cultivated eccentricities by noting the "foreign strain" in his parentage: "Expatriation allows one to drop a lot of unwanted moral luggage, lets talent travel lightly and opens it to the histrionic." He speculates on the Edwardians' taste for the novels of George Meredith, for satire and high comedy: "One can see why: an age of surfeit had arrived. The lives of the upper classes were both enlivened and desiccated by what seems to have been a continuous diet of lobster and champagne-a diet well-suited in its after-effects to the stimulation...
Daughter of a construction worker and a schoolteacher, Hufstedler earned a bachelor's degree in business administration at the University of New Mexico ('45) in 2½ years. She worked briefly as secretary to Stars Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith, then enrolled at Stanford Law School, where she graduated tenth in her class ('49) and married the man who graduated No. 1, Seth Hufstedler. She practiced general civil law in Los Angeles until 1961, when Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown named her a Los Angeles County superior court judge. In 1966 he promoted her to the California...