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Burton obligingly called up his family in Pontrhydyfen and told them to look after his journalist friend, and in hospitable Welsh fashion they did. Burton had told him how "boys proved their manhood" in Pontrhydyfen by walking across a bridge on an inverted V railing over a 120-ft. gorge...
...whom Shakespeare prophetically wrote: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Burton's voice and Welsh background also made him a natural for the documentary, A Tribute to Dylan Thomas, winner of a Hollywood Oscar a fortnight ago. *A housemaid's journal in Britain, now defunct. -Rex is suing...
...save Graham had worked the coal face (Richard himself never worked in the '""s), and some of them went on to other positions in local government, the police, and the army. In Richard, however, the family planted its dream of something better beyond the valley. "The idea of a Welsh miner's son going to Oxford University," says Richard Burton, "was ridiculous beyond the realm of possibility...
Died. Alec Templeton, 52. blind Welsh-born concert pianist whose dry sense of humor led him to improvise satires of the old masters (he once fooled London critics into praising his hoked-up version of It Ain't Gonna Rain No More as an unknown work of Mozart), after which he traveled to the U.S. in 1935, where he was such a hit that he stayed to become a citizen in 1941 and the radio idol of 6,000,000 weekly listeners in the days when Jack Benny and the late Fred Allen provided the competition; of cancer...
...Suffolk Superior Court jury has acquitted folksinger Jackie Washington on a charge of assault and battery of a police officer. The jury deliberated for five hours Wednesday after a three-day trial, and its sealed verdict was opened and read yesterday morning by Judge Robert A. Welsh...