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...Dean Johnston might long be remembered in the lawbooks to which he had devoted himself. Two years after his fatal heart attack, the Colorado Industrial Commission referee ruled that his death had come by overexertion while carrying out the duties of his employment, awarded Johnston's widow $11,466 in workmen's compensation. The commission itself later overruled its referee, only to be reversed, fortnight ago, by Denver District Court Judge Donald D. Bowman, who reinstated the award. Denver University, found the judge, paid Dean Johnston's fraternity dues and traveling expenses, expected him to attend...
While Frank ("Pope") Sinatra and his self-conscious Clansmen were frolicking" in Europe, their onetime matriarch, Lauren Bacall, 36, pulled the imprimatur right out from under them back in Hollywood. "As far as I'm concerned," pronounced the bodkin-tongued widow of the clique's founding father, Humphrey Bogart, "the Rat Pack automatically dissolved in 1956 [when Bogart was fatally ill]. I don't recognize the present group at all; I think their pleasures are rather simple-simple-minded." Was there space for her new spouse, Jason Robards Jr., on Bogie's pedestal...
Each summer for 16 years, the citizens of Mayenne (pop. 10,000), a river town 150 miles west of Paris, had pleaded with Maggie Mae McRacken, now a 48-year-old widow and a $50-a-week sales-clerk in a Charlotte, N.C., sundries shop, to come and visit them. But for reasons of health, family responsibility, finances and natural reticence, Maggie McRacken never got to Mayenne-until last week. Then, she and the townfolk of Mayenne finally met at the end of an intensely sentimental journey...
...memento-strewn Manhattan apartment, Claire Ruth, widow of baseball's Sultan of Swat, pondered the growing possibility that the Babe's 1927 record of 60 homers in a single season may be beaten this year by Yankee Sluggers Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris. Said she: "I know they say records are made to be broken, but deep down in my heart I hope it doesn't happen." Even if Mantle or Maris should succeed, however, Mrs. Ruth saw consolations: "At least it will be a Yankee who did it. And everyone will remember Babe as the first...
...director, has, if anything, intensified this somewhat incongruous vaudeville element (wholly serived. I deem, from American productions of Die Dreigroschenoper): marquee lights glitter from the proscenium, news of each scene is projected on a screen from slides (a Ia Chaplin), and poor old Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall-ish as a composer...