Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news from Pall Mall, Tenn., home town of Sergeant Alvin York, one of World War I's top heroes, was a little brighter. Teetotaler York, 71, crippled by a stroke in 1954, reported that his health is improving, allowed that he has even felt a yen to go hunting again. Another good omen: he has not heard recently from federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier...
...Carney, as the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (NBC). "Nothing should stand out about this guy," said Carney about his role, and he may have carried a good judgment too far, was sometimes too emotionless compared to the rest of the cast, directed by José Quintero with the same intensity that he brought to O'Neill on Broadway. The play itself once again emerged as an unfailingly touching, tender hymn to life...
About 250 students will be housed in each of the two new colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
Where It Hurts. In Seisdon, England, Town Clerk Arno Romer Baskett explained how overdue rents will be collected from holdout tenants: "We will seize their television sets...
Died. George Vernon Denny Jr., 60, originator and longtime (1935-52) moderator of ABC radio's America's Town Meeting of the Air; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in West Cornwall. Conn. North Carolina-born George Denny, associate director of the League of Political Education, conceived the Town Meeting program after being told by a neighbor that he would never listen to a fireside chat because he could not stand Franklin D. Roosevelt. Denny set up Town Meeting as a forum where both sides of any issue could be heard, umpired such hagglers as Harold Ickes and No Foreign...