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...Stranger in Town (Mel Tormé; Capitol). The "velvet fog" is back with a lonely mood number that combines the story of That Old Gang of Mine with some of the feeling of One for My Baby...
Nevertheless, it was a stranger, a shiftless young wayfarer named Jean Sigot, who offered Farmer Talabard a way out of his difficulty. A jobless 19-year-old who had scraped acquaintance with Marie at another dance,. Jean magnanimously offered to marry Marie in return for work and a permanent home at the Talabard farm. Old Pierre leaped at the offer, and the pair were married in April...
Penelope's papa was a Church of England clergyman "of a type now nearly extinct, low church, bigoted, and opposed to every kind of enjoyment." Ecclesiastes was his Bible; when Penelope spoke to a stranger, her father rebuked her in his own didactic paraphrases, saying: "If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly." He refused her a piano ("Wine and music will rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both") and kept her from the village fair ("Who so taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned...
Divorced. Keenan Wynn, 36, cinema comedian (Phone Call from a Stranger) and son of Funnyman Ed Wynn; by his second wife, Betty Jane ("Beetsie") Wynn, 27; after 4½ years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...like any other: nine men and three women bent on bringing in a just verdict. Looking at them as he made his final address, Britain's Attorney General Sir Lionel Heald was moved to remark: "You are like travelers in a strange country." The metaphor was apt: few stranger countries have been thrown open for exploration than the mind of John Reginald Halliday Christie, confessed murderer of seven women...