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...with hair combed back severely into tight round buns, country-pretty girls in the early 20s. and children scooting mindlessly through the throng. Silently and intently, they listened as Orval Eugene Faubus, Governor of the sovereign state of Arkansas, told why they should keep him in the air-conditioned splendor of the Governor's mansion down in Little Rock for an unprecedented fifth term...
...program was the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello (viewing price: $1), which has already made the rounds of the country's movie theaters and is well along on its journey from Broadway's Palace to The Late Show. Other first-week films include One-Eyed Jacks, Splendor in the Grass and Breakfast at Tiffany's. But programming should improve. Hartford's pay viewers will get a chance to see Warner Brothers' still unreleased The Music Man; and next autumn they will watch the Bolshoi Ballet...
Older & Wiser. These modest attractions give klaxon-larynxed Eagle no opportunity to launch into the splendor of his oldtime spiel: "Now, ladies and gentlemen, I invite your undivided attention to the most amazing attraction ever presented for the edification of the citizens of your fair city (come closer, please, so that I may describe this educational exhibit to you in the confidential tones most appropriate for information of this nature). I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to the biological, yes, the anatomical wonder of the age: Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy from deep in the heart of the jungles...
...tiara, sat a glistening segment of New York's feminine society. The girls had gathered for the usual ritual: a fashion show (this one a benefit in memory of Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, who died in a plane crash last year). As usual, the crowd vied in splendor with the mannequins displaying the new summer modes. Mmes. William Woodward, George F. Baker, Frederick Gushing and John R. Fell turned out with their fanciest friends, some sporting the new ascetic Marienbad coiffure, and all dressed to the nines. But this was a fashion show with a difference. For it demonstrated...
Fifty-five years ago, the first workmen came to Washington's Mount Saint Alban to build a canopy under which President Theodore Roosevelt set the foundation stone for the Washington Cathedral. Now, in the still unfinished splendor of this Episcopal Church, the Very Rev. Francis Sayre Jr., dean of the cathedral, enjoys speculating on the progress of the many workmen who-on one job or another-have been around ever since. If past performance is a guide, the cathedral will not be completed until 1991, but Dean Sayre is undisturbed by temporal equations. His only hope, he says modestly...