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...pours. To a very few show folk-Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Thalberg, Variety Founder Sime Silverman-has gone an uninterrupted outpouring of vocal, tearful affection. This week a new name was added to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's title: Some of Manie's Friends...
Born. To Janet Blair (real name: Martha Janet Lafferty), 38, actress (Sid Caesar's third TV wife, Eileen in the first ilm version of My Sister Eileen), and STick Mayo, 37, producer: their first child...
...Foster maintained his four-year winning streak whipping Sid Bixler 12 to 4 at 177 lbs., but missing at least three opportunities to pin his opponent. Wrestling at 157 lbs., captain Joe Noble pulled out a close 5-2 decision against Amhert's Wade Williams...
...reasons for Charles de Gaulle's electoral triumph in Algeria last November was his giving Algerian women the vote. The woman who took most advantage of the offer was Néfissa Sid Cara, a schoolmarm who is the sister of a well-known pro-French Moslem politician. Running for the French National Assembly, she allowed no men to attend her meetings, and she had but one plank to her platform. "We want French law," one weeping woman told her. "My husband left me." "My husband took away my sons," said a veiled woman. "You must give them back...
Elected to France's Assembly, Néfissa Sid Cara pored over recent Tunisian and Moroccan codes that have liberalized the rights of women; she consulted religious authorities and legal experts; she agitated in Paris. Last week Néfissa's reforms, having been approved as one of the last of 300 decrees issued before the De Gaulle government's four-month emergency powers expired, became law. Only the Moslem Mozabite sect, whose 40,000 members are not quite ready to be yanked out of the Middle Ages, was exempted from it. For the rest of Algeria...