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Wilfred J. Funk was born to words. He reveled in them, ranked them and made a small fortune from them. A lifelong lexicographer, he was a tireless missionary for the English language, and by the time he died at 83 last week, he had succeeded in converting many others to his cherished belief: "It pays to increase your word power...
Died. Julia Ghilione Skouras, 67, widow of Movie Theater-Chain Executive George P. Skouras (over 200 United Artists houses in 50 cities), herself the tireless, unpaid international chairman of Boys Towns of Italy, who regularly toiled 14 hours a day organizing committees and arranging benefits to support the ten towns and 31 nurseries which now shelter 6,700 Italian orphans; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; in Manhattan...
These cases are not atypical. Although the Southern press is no longer monolithic, the vast majority of Southern newspapers are owned by old white families whose histories and interests are woven tightly into the social and political fabric of segregation. The exceptions are few, though striking. Through years of tireless prodding, Ralph McGill has converted the Atlanta Constitution into a respected voice of accuracy and reason. Likewise, Hodding Carter and his sons have made the Greenville Delta-Democrat-Times the only reliable daily in Mississippi. But, outside Atlanta and Greenville, the picture is very bleak. The Northern newspapers rarely penetrate...
Armory for 10,000 people, including the Johnsons and the Humphreys, who were introduced by Gala Chairman Arthur Krim, president of United Artists and a tireless Democratic Party fund raiser. The two-hour variety spectacular featured Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Johnny Carson, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews and Carol Channing. Harry Belafonte, wearing one of his custom-made undress shirts, knocked out a Michael Row the Boat Ashore, slipping in a few lines about Mississippi and Alabama. Barbra Streisand belted out Happy Days Are Here Again and People for the folks listening without loudspeakers in Baltimore. Dame...
Salvation Army. The two-level set was designed by Pop Sculptor Richard Randell, 35, who fashioned a gilt-sprayed throne out of a tangle of exhaust pipes, shock absorbers, grease guns and tireless wheels. On the lower level, he amassed heaps of railroad ties, packing boxes, oversized inner tubes pierced with spikes, and coils of baling wire-"the residue of industrial decay to show the decadent state of the kingdom, a kind of subterranean...