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...when traveling in an age of gas stations motels and Howard Johnsons. Last week at a Franciscan financial conference at St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa., U.S Franciscans heard of a happy compromise used by their Canadian brethren. Surprisingly, it is the same solution used by man non-Franciscans not sworn to poverty but headed for it. The device: credit cards...
When Nominal Democrat Samuel Yorty was sworn in as Los Angeles' mayor, the august inaugural was presided over by no less a statesman than Professional Toastmaster George Jessel, 63. Last week, entertainment's sinking showboat offhandedly admitted that the official document he had been handed at the ceremony was a paternity-suit summons slapped on him by sometime Fiancée Joan Tyler, 27. At week's end Joan assured the world, in the blase manner of Hollywood, that "George and I are not mad at each other," hinted that he might marry her when her divorce...
...least one acutely embarrassing experience." Recently, Kennedy nominated White House Staffer Frank Reeves to be the first Negro on the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia. Although checking financial records of presidential nominees is routine, no White House aide noticed that eight income tax liens had been sworn out against Reeves in the last ten years-a fact that the Senate easily discovered. Last week Kennedy was forced to withdraw Reeves's nomination, as a consequence, Krock noted, of "one of the most splendid examples in history of the beauties Mr. Kennedy sees in staff undercoordination...
...first, Nellie Tayloe Ross (later director of the U.S. Mint) was sworn in as Governor of Wyoming just 15 days earlier, though both women were elected on the same day. Since then, many have tried, but no other woman has been elected Governor...
...Peck's jaw as he leads a crew of ruffians up an unclimbable rock face in a pelting rain. Suddenly he slips. In best White Tower tradition, the man who grabs Peck's wrist is his blood enemy, a dour Cretan guerrilla (Anthony Quinn) who has sworn to kill him when the war is over. Quinn's eyes flash. Will he let Peck fall? Not, the viewer may be sure, while there are still old war movies left to anthologize...