Word: seaton
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DIED. George Seaton, 68, prolific, perdurable screenwriter (The Song of Bernadette, 1944), producer (The Bridges at Toko-Ri, 1955) and director (Airport, 1970); of cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The original Lone Ranger on radio, at 22 Seaton went to Hollywood to work on comedy scripts, including the 1937 Marx Brothers' A Day at the Races. At 28 he began a partnership with Producer William Perlberg that brought Seaton two Oscars: for the screenplay Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and for his adaptation of the Clifford Odets play The Country Girl...
Directed by HOWARD ALK and SEATON FINDLAY...
Died. Frederick Andrew Seaton, 64, Secretary of the Interior from 1956 to 1961, who helped win statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; after a long illness; in Minneapolis. Seaton was appointed in 1951 to fill a Nebraska Senate vacancy when Kenneth Wherry died and became a key adviser to Dwight Eisenhower during his campaign in 1952; he remained in Washington as an influential member of the White House inner circle...
...Harvard-educated lawyers, Bruce J. Terris '54 and Richard Seaton '59, were there. The farmers, organized as the Concerned Citizens United, were there. The power company, Kansas Power and Light, was there...
...American-probably the best pitching team in the Series-lost to Southern Illinois, 5-4, Saturday but ousted Seaton Hall from the tournament yesterday, 8-2. Bill Kelly is the probable starting pitcher for the Crimson today...