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...award ceremony is now-as Gregory Peck, President of the Academy, said-"a major news event," but largely because television considers it one. Perhaps there is some value in the Academy's "annual recognition of excellent achievement in the year past," but there is no need for the presentation ceremony to be public. If the Hollywood people themselves get a thrill out of their annual get-together, they would show more taste to keep this a private party...
...press and the free flow of information," and deploring "any restrictions, especially from government." Unless the mayor rescinds the ban. the feud will probably be resolved in the courts this spring. In the meantime, the newspaper and the mayor continue, as State Senator David McClung puts it, "to peck away at each other like a pair of outraged myna birds. Neither is doing the job that should or could be done for our people." All the same, the mayor's popularity appears to be rebounding. A telephone poll by local TV station KGMB indicated that only...
...attract our attention by young, "You people-quit wasting your time here! I'm a lawyer and I was just up in the courtroom and I know that you'll never get in! Why don't you come over to the Civic Center and give support to Sidney Peck? He case is being tried there and you in just walk...
...questioning look on everyone's fa?? I could tell that I was not the only member of the group who was un??e of the identity of one Sidney Pe?? Courageously, I confronted her. "V??o is Sidney Peck, anyway...
...approaching 11 a. m. Having no h??e of getting into the building nor any interest in Mr. Peck's case, I returned to Evanston...