Word: smith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph Bellamy, star of Broadway's State of the Union, also had a sunshine-&-shadows week. Hot Organist wife Ethel Smith had sued him for separation, charged that when she played the organ for guests he flew into a rage because she stole the spotlight. Bellamy's own complaint, in answer: though he was busy onstage nights till 11:20, she only gave him till 11:45 to get home, and if he missed the deadline she locked him out. Anyway, Actor Bellamy & highball crashed the Men of Distinction gallery...
Twitchy & Bouncy. In 1932, Jackie Smith, then 16, sat in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove gaping at Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys. Then & there he swore an oath: "I'm going to make it my life's work to get on that stage." Within three months, Jack's life's work was completed, when he and two other high-school kids were signed to sing at the Grove. Twelve years later, Jack was still a promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year...
...debunkers gone too far? What if the generation after next grew up without ever hearing about John Smith and Pocahontas or even George Washington and the cherry tree? The possibility bothered Richard E. Thursfield, who used to be a history teacher and now teaches "education" at Johns Hopkins. Last week, in an essay in The Study and Teaching of American History (The National Council for the Social Studies; $2.50), Thursfield called for a modern Bulfinch to write an American Age of Fable...
Died. Gipsy Rodney Smith, 87, British evangelist whose gently persuasive voice pulled hundreds of thousands of repentant sinners to camp meeting altars all over the world for five decades; of a heart attack; on board the U.S.-bound Queen Mary...
...support its local front groups." I can only say of the first statement that I find it highly flattering, because the "thing" was one of the finest demonstrations ever to take place in Boston, and, indeed, ranks high on the long list of demonstrations which have been organized against Smith throughout the country. As for the second statement, I think it hardly necessary or even proper to answer, and thus render legitimate, such an obvious bit of name-calling. I do think it unfortunate that a person of Walker's intelligence should think it possible in a Harvard publication...