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...latest television stunt. A willowy wisp of a girl last week climbed into a 190-lb. diving suit and tangoed around (with a suitably dressed partner) in a tank containing 15 feet of water. The girl: ash blonde Gillian Webb*-the 20-year-old who, with two older colleagues, does all the BBC's television announcing, a job which ordinarily demands only an ability to chat at a battery of cameras...
Unlike many an image projected by BBC's frankly experimental television system (there are 25,000 British television sets-more than twice as many as in the U.S.), Gillian Webb is pretty as a picture. But it took a deal more than a pretty face to persuade sober BBC to give one of its top television situations to a chit of a girl. To get the job, Gillian had to beat 400 other applicants...
...hydrophile Matthew Webb, who swam the English Channel...
...Fabians were constitutionally wedded to the British Treasury. Nearly every member of the present Government was either a member of the Fabian Society or had been consciously influenced by it. Webb, now 87, had long ago (1929) overcome his aversion to titles of nobility and reluctantly consented to become Baron Passfield (though the late Beatrice refused to become Lady Passfield). But Shaw, looking for new worlds to conquer, at 90, sent the meeting a telegram...
Garry Essendine (Clifton Webb) is the center-and usually the storm center-of a brittle theatrical group. He has a spare room for attractive women who have "lost their latchkeys"; he loves 'em & leaves 'em-sighing for more; the last thing in his flat he would part with is his mirror; and he insists that he wants quiet but thrives on scenes...