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WILLIAM L. MAIER Webster...
...765th week on the air. The first show, on May 26, 1940, began with the U.S. Constitution. Since then, on Sundays from 11:30 to noon, about 550 conversationalists have appeared on the program to discuss more than 750 books. Among them: Historian Arnold Toynbee, Shakespearean Producer Margaret Webster, Socialist
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...third movie made from Jean Webster's bestselling novel (1912) and hit play (1914), Daddy Long Legs is the first to set the story to music (by Johnny Mercer and Alex North). The saccharine story: a wealthy, middle-aged American (Fred Astaire) takes a fancy to a pretty young French orphan (Leslie Caron) and decides to pay her way through college in the U.S. Lest philanthropy be thought philandering, he keeps his identity a secret. Leslie knows him only from his shadow, seen once in an odd light, as "Daddy Long Legs." However, there is nothing more certain...
...Seemingly a modest number, but considerably more than the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, which taxed Bostons' medical facilities to the utmost with 181 cases. * Originally, according to Webster: "The process of grading marketable produce...