Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pity the girl who marries Frank Duncan, clacked the gossips around the Santa Barbara, Calif, courthouse. The owl-eyed lawyer was arrogant and humorless, lisped so noticeably that teasing court clerks called him a "wicked wascal wabbit" behind his back. But that was the lesser half of it: Frank at 29 was a mamma's boy. Matronly, smartly dressed Elizabeth Duncan, separated from her husband when Frank was a child, held her son's hand in court, applauded when he won a case, tongue-lashed the district attorney when he lost. So tight was the noose that once...
...Frank and Olga dated. In May Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home to mother...
Defeat & Death. Olga and Frank ignored the threats; Olga, in fact, had high hopes that the baby's arrival might win over Frank once and for all. Then, in mid-November, Olga's hospital friends reported her mysteriously missing. Frank was no help. Santa Barbara and Ventura police turned up the phony annulment and, with help from the FBI, followed a trail that led to two characters of Santa Barbara's seamy Haley Street area: blade-thin Augustine Baldonado, 25, and Luis Moya, a 22-year-old convict (dope and street fighting). Both finally confessed that mother...
Donna Reed Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.)* Cheops-faced Clown Buster Keaton makes one of his rare appearances outside old movies. He plays a Santa Claus who puts hospitalized children in stitches...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). An uninterrupted plum pudding, with Actor Victor Tory reciting Dickens, Comedian Dick Van Dyke pantomiming tree decorators, Newscaster Douglas Edwards reading the New York Sun's 1897 editorial, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...