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While the public's back has been turned, a handful of lawyers and laymen have been trying to improve the courts of the U.S. A leader in this fight is Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a distinguished jurist and the head of a state court system that has risen from one of the nation's worst to one of the best in ten years. Judge Vanderbilt notes that although some jurisdictions have made great improvements in the last two decades, in others the judges are substandard, procedures are unnecessarily complex, and court...
...getups, paraded about the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria to help raise money for a final victory over polio. Among the models were austerely beautiful Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr. (who displayed what Couturier Charles James called "the highest bust line in 125 years"), socially registered Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, TV Star Margaret Truman, and split-bustled sometime Stripteaser-Novelist Gypsy Rose Lee. Bubbled Gypsy: "I don't worry about shoes. When they start looking at my shoes, I'll retire...
...social events of the year. In Dallas the big story was the annual Terpsichorean Ball. In Miami it was the opening of Hialeah race track with "former Ambassador to England Joseph P. Kennedy and his family, Mrs. Russell Firestone, Mrs. Robert Cudahy and, of course, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt." The Big Change. Who are in the new society page's society? The New York Times and Herald Tribune still report on the Social Registerites. But they also print all the announcements they have room for about the engagements, weddings, births, parties, etc.. of others who are "eligible in terms...
...generally pleasant cast are such well-known performers as Franchot Tone, Myron McCormick, Paula Laurence, Harold Lang, John Carradine. And with Irving Berlin's daughter Linda, Saroyan's ex-wife Carol Grace, and Stokowski's estranged wife Gloria Vanderbilt each playing a bit part, The Time of Your Life is the season's most glamorous bit-party...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). With Gloria Vanderbilt, Franchot Tone...