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...situation comedies will be stretching further than ever for their situations. Perennial Loretta Young will be a widow with seven children. There will be rustic mountain folk living in Los Angeles (The Beverly Hillbillies), carpenters exchanging old saws (I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster), and Stanley Holloway as a British butler on the staff of an American family (Our Man Higgins). The producers of The Flintstones have a new family called The Jetsons, who live one century in the future. Mrs. Jetson has a high-IQ vacuum cleaner that can see, think and maneuver...
...bored with their pets give them to Stroud to keep. With painstaking perfectionism, he fashions cages out of packing crates. A septic fever epidemic decimates his aviary. He pores over biology books, concocts trial-and-error medicines until he discovers a cure. With the help of a bird-loving widow (Betty Field), he markets the medicines...
Then a prison fiat says: no more pets. The resourceful Stroud discovers a legal loophole that permits him to marry the widow while still in prison. This touches off a byplay with public opinion to enable him to keep his birds. But not for long. With no explanation whatsoever, Stroud is abruptly transferred by prison authorities to Alcatraz...
Into a trust fund for his widow went the $6,982,000 remainder of the $37.2 million estate left by Broker-Businessman Charles Ulrich Bay-taxes, administrative costs, and bequests to charities took the rest. But Josephine Bay Paul, 61, who took over from her husband as board chairman of American Export Lines and president of Wall Street's A. M. Kidder & Co., is still a very rich woman. She has the $13.5 million Bay left her before he died in 1955, is now married to wealthy Broker-Oilman C. Michael Paul, and cuts such a figure...
Married. Beatrice Sigrist. 58, widow of Hawker Aircraft Ltd.'s Founder Frederick Sigrist, mother of the jet set's nearly supersonic Bobo Sigrist; and Sir Berkeley Ormerod, 64, retired public relations chief of the British Information Services in the U.S.; she for the third time, he for the first; in London...