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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CHARLES O. PORTER Member of Congress Washington...
...that convinced thousands of theatergoers that the actress must be Jewish ("I didn't even know what a Jew was until I was grown up," says Anne Bancroft). As Annie Sullivan, Actress Bancroft erases her Italian heritage so completely that, after seeing Miracle, Novelist Edwin (The Last Hurrah) O'Connor said: "This is the most astonishingly accurate Irish accent I've ever heard. It sounds as if she'd been born in Galway...
...O Little Town ... In Newark, police and firemen set up ladders and nets in front of a department store when Leo Kotomski crawled out on its third-story ledge, disbanded when they learned that Kotomski was only looking over Christmas decorations...
...court last January when a Columbus federal grand jury indicted the four: Mains, sales vice president of the Union Fork & Hoe Co. of Columbus; William G. Rector and Robert R. Raymond, president and vice president of the True Temper Corp. of Cleveland; and F. Bliss Winn. president of the O. Ames Co. division of McDonough Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va. The indictment charged that at meetings held over the past five years they discussed setting identical prices for hundreds of implements, chiefly for gardening, such as rakes, shovels, picks, trowels, sidewalk scrapers and sod lifters. With other parties...
Take Me Along. Although this musical version of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! does not dazzle the senses, it leaves a generally pleasant, nostalgic aftertaste. With Jackie Gleason...