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...touching plea to the President of the U.S.: Would he, in the name of Christian charity, posthumously pardon that gifted storyteller O. Henry,* convicted in 1898 of embezzling $854.08 from an Austin bank? At the same time the wire went to President Eisenhower from Major General (ret.) Paul Wakefield, the foundation's president, word of his appeal was scattered to newspapers, radio and television stations the country over...
Yale's first score came midway through the opening period, shortly after Scott Wakefield blocked a punt on the Crimson 11-yard line. Two thrusts over tackle produced the touchdown, with halfback Ralph Wicz covering the last five yards...
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Died. John Augustin McNulty, 60, old-time newsman, bar correspondent and gentle troubadour of cabbies, rummies and $2 bettors in Manhattan (Third Avenue, New York) and other places where elbows are bent (A Man Gets Around), veteran sketch writer for The New Yorker; of a heart attack; in Wakefield...
Barring Veteran Comic David Burns the cast is young, night-spotty, and largely new to Broadway, Pat Carroll, Jack Wakefield, Helen Halpin and Elaine Dunn should all have Broadway futures, but at the moment they can only enhance good material; they cannot save bad. What with undistinguished numbers and indistinguishable songs, a long-winded ballad about a killer and a dreadful adaptation of O Henry's Gift of the Magi, Catch a Mar! only intermittently catches...