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Picture Banned. Hollywood kept its comment down to whispers. Privately, most of the high movie brass professed to take a dim view of Actress Bergman's professional future. Only Colleen Townsend, the starlet who is reportedly quitting films to become a divinity student, spoke up. She recalled the Bible story of the woman taken in adultery: "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." The first stone was promptly cast by 83-year-old Memphis Censor Lloyd T. Binford, who announced that he was banning Stromboli without seeing it, along with all other Bergman pictures...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals yesterday announced the unanimous election of Nicholas Benton '51 of Adams House as chairman of the organization for the coming year and the choice of Townsend Hornor '52 of Lincoln, Massachusetts, as vice-chairman...
Even. In St. Joseph, Mo., when a 17-year-old customer returned to the Townsend and Wall department store to complain that a costly cigarette lighter he had bought was no good, the store retorted that neither was his check...
Outside of buying such necessities, most of Scurry County's new-rich were living much as before and saving their money. As Joe York's neighbor, Arthur ("Booger Red") Townsend put it: "A man don't need no million dollars, all he needs is some comfortable circumstances...
...Cleveland, Dr. Francis Everett Townsend, who for 16 years has plumped for pensions for old folks, offered a good reason for further plumping. After caring for his young grandson, Craig Alan, he saicT: "Babysitting is only that in name. With a two-and-a-half-year-old, it's mostly baby walking. I'm tired...