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DIED. Fred F. Finklehoffe, 67, Hollywood and Broadway producer-writer; in Springtown, Pa. Finklehoffe and John Monks Jr. wrote a parody of their cadet days at Virginia Military Institute that became the 1936-37 Broadway hit Brother Rat. Finklehoffe went on to produce other successful plays and revues (The Heiress, Showtime, Big Time). He also co-authored several screenplays, including For Me and My Gal and Meet Me in St. Louis, for which he received a 1944 Academy Award nomination...
...movement's diversity is pointed up by the variety of new women's publications. Most are angry and barely afloat financially. A few, such as Aphra, a quarterly located in Springtown, Pa., and Women: A Journal of Liberation, of Baltimore, are of high literary quality. Some, like A Broom of One's Own, of Washington, are largely one-woman efforts. Two angry entries are Off Our Backs and Up from Under?a gymnastic juxtaposition...
CHARLES E. PATTERSON JR. Assistant Professor of Government Lehigh University Springtown...
Married. Jack Kirkland, 36, playwright (Tobacco Road); to Haila Stoddard, 24, blonde actress; in Springtown, Pa. Playwright Kirkland, previously married to Cinemactress Nancy Carroll, Jayne Shadduck, Julia Laird, announced his marriage to Actress Stoddard a week before the wedding "to avoid crowds and publicity...
...prodigal outdoor life. Deep within him was another kind of hunger-a hunger for learning which he has not fully satisfied to this day. He attended rural schools here and there, now and then, and finally got admitted to a freshwater college in Parker County, Texas, called Springtown Male & Female Institute. Here he discovered what to study, went back to his odd jobs, returned to the Institute later to take and pass 18 examinations in a row, emerge with a B. S. degree. Thereafter he taught school, did newspaper work, studied law at night. At 29 he crossed over...
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