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Married. Joan Naomi Benny, 19 adopted daughter of Comedians Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone; and Seth Baker, 26, Manhattan stockbroker; she for the first time, he for the second; in an evening ceremony, followed by a mammoth, $50,000 reception where some 600 guests (including Ethel Merman, Tyrone Power, Bob Hope) consumed 420 bottles of champagne, 700 Ibs. of squab, 600 Ibs. of beef tenderloin; in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

Occasionally, Teacher MacDonald allows, her American sixth-graders were "sensitive and brilliant." Somehow, the troublemakers "picked it all up ... in a way that many of our more studious classes might envy." One day she read them Matthew Arnold's The Forsaken Merman, and "there was dead silence, everyone as deeply attentive as a devout congregation in church." It was one day when victory went to teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Scot in the Sixth Grade | 3/8/1954 | See Source »

Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Ethel Merman in Never Follow a Banjo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...Ethel Merman, with Jimmy Durante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Jan. 25, 1954 | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman's wonderful brassy voice and personality sparkplug the film version of her Broadway musical hit (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CHOICE FOR 1953 | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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