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...Free Robe. The temporary judge is appointed for a single civil case, and his powers are strictly limited. He cannot perform marriages, for instance, or sign search warrants for criminal investigations. And since each is a volunteer, he gets no pay. Otherwise, says Presiding Judge McCarty, "we treat him like any other justice. We provide him with a robe and off he goes...
...moneymaking movie palaces. Skouras also took over the Fox Metropolitan theater group, rescued it from bankruptcy and wound up in 1942 as head of the entire 20th Century-Fox empire. He pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe, The Snake Pit and Gentleman's Agreement. Blamed for massive losses incurred partly by the $30 million epic Cleopatra, he resigned as Fox president in 1962 and later took the helm of the Prudential-Grace shipping lines...
APPEARANCE: Typical hippie type?long hair, beard, robe, sandals...
...most prized finds were a group of ornately embroidered bishops' robes made of brocade, suede and velvet, bought from the Lavrosky Museum in Kiev, U.S.S.R. "I was ready to put scissors to the material immediately," Jenny Bell says, "when I was told they were consecrated. I called the Russian Orthodox Church to have them deconsecrated because I thought people might feel a little strange wearing them." To play it safe with both God and woman, she has agreed to hand over her favorite piece, an 18th century black brocade deacon's robe, to Manhattan's Ukrainian Institute...
...operations of Congress, marveled over the extensive staffs that served its committees, and met Lyndon Johnson. He toured California and visited Disneyland. In New York, Sadat poked through second-hand bookshops until he had a copy of every book written by his favorite author, Lloyd C. Douglas (The Robe). Sadat had discovered Douglas' books while he was in prison, he explained, and he liked them because "he has tremendous power and he gives faith and confidence...