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Baker had cut profanity from earlier plays, but this time he refused; for one thing, O'Neill's widow, in authorizing the production, had stipulated that no cuts be made. McCall closed the play and 190 Baptist ministers all over Texas gave him a rousing vote of support. Baker stewed for a couple of months, and then resigned as of the school year's end. "We didn't know what we would be faced with once this kind of censorship set in," he explained. With him went not only his wife, who has taught math...
...turn of the century, William Seton's fortune had collapsed, and so had his health. On their doctor's advice, they went to Italy in 1803, where Seton hoped to recoup his health and financial losses. There he died, leaving Betty Seton. at 29, a nearly penniless widow with five children...
...House Office next year will be a changed place; not only Master Perkins, but also the charming Avis DeVoto, widow of historian Bernard DeVoto, will depart in June. But one of Lowell's greatest attractions will remain, which Freshman ought to consider before choosing a House: Miss Eleanor Hess, the Senior Tutor's secretary, is surely an important part of Lowell's claim to greatness...
...months since Comedian Ernie Kovacs died in an automobile crash, no one in show business has been busier than his widow Edie Adams. She was left with an enormous, unspecified debt that Ernie owed the Government. Their joint production company also owed the American Broadcasting Company almost $125,000 in unpaid production charges for old Kovacs TV shows. Her pressagent claims that she could have gone into bankruptcy; instead, she went to work. She has done movies, TV appearances, commercials-anything and everything to help pay off the debts that Ernie left behind...
...year-old widow with three daughters to look after (two are step-daughters), she brings home a fair chunk of sugar-cured bacon. But she always has. She was sister Eileen in Wonderful Town, and she won a Tony award as Daisy Mae in Broadway's Li'l Abner. Early in her show business experience, she was taught how to go for the green. As a dappled-taffy blonde out of rural Pennsylvania, Tenafly, N.J., and the Juilliard School of Music, she appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts years ago, hoping to win the evening with...