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...When Vivian Chamberlain, 34, died in Stockton, Calif, last week, she was the fourth of 14 siblings to be carried off by a mysterious, muscle-wasting disease. Vivian was 15 when she was stricken with what doctors believed to be muscular dystropny-a progressive wasting away of muscle power for which neither cause nor cure is known. She had gradually become disabled, spent her last two months in San Joaquin General Hospital. When Vivian the first ominous stiffening in her ankles, followed by weakness and loss of balance, one sister had already died. She lived to see another sister...
...drama front, things were nearly as sticky. Betty Furness left her refrigerators long enough to fly to Hollywood to replace ailing Joan Blondell in Let's Face It, with Bert Lahr and Vivian Elaine. She might more sensibly have remained in Manhattan. On NBC. Kraft TV Theater's adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma was so filled with feminine squeals, flutterings on tiptoe and elfin men that it seemed to be played by an entire company of Mary Kays and Johnnies; on ABC, Kraft had better luck with Run for the Money, featuring Jamie Smith and Phyllis...
...Select Committee of the Senate recommended the censure of Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and thereby erected a new landmark in U.S. government. The report was carefully constructed by six shirtsleeved men in the office of Utah's Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, a man little known in the past who should be long remembered in the future. Unanimously, firmly, unequivocally. Chairman Watkins and his five committeemen recommended that McCarthy be censured by the Senate on two counts: ¶ He had been contemptuous of, and had obstructed, the Senate Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, which...
...several styles in Senate committee chairmen, from the forceful intelligence with which Georgia's Richard Russell conducted the MacArthur hearings to the good-natured bumbling of Karl Mundt at the Army-McCarthy hearings. Last week came a chairman with a different style. Utah's Republican Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins, 67, began presiding over the special Senate committee on whether to recommend censure of Senator Joe McCarthy. He was quiet, polite, clearheaded-and very stubborn when pushed...
Last week the special committee whose job it is to decide whether the Senate should censure McCarthy met under the chairmanship of Utah's Senator Arthur Vivian Watkins. Before it. or at least available to it, was more evidence about McCarthy than any man could read in a lifetime. Fair or foul, McCarthy's record is written plain in transcript upon tons of transcript. What might be painfully difficult is the judgment to be passed on that record. Is his conduct unbecoming a Senator...