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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving over half the program to his son and daughter; the posters had proclaimed: "Josh White --Ballade and Blues," but with the White family singing campfire ditties like "There's a Hole in the Ground," the show was certainly not as advertised. Teenaged Josh Jr. tried (his own word) a half dozen numbers in an adolescent tone reminiscent of Jimmie Rodgers; Daughter Beverly fared better, mostly because her material far outweighed her brother's often embarrassingly juvenile repertoire...
...desperate note to "Mr. Judge" was scrawled by Untamed, who knew no other word for the law. Last week, riding in a police car, the children clutched one another in terror-though Conqueror soon asked the cop for a turn at the wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping...
Runways with Pigs. Raised on an Iowa farm, Arkfeld was ordained in 1943 in the Society of the Divine Word, the worldwide mission order founded in Germany in 1875. Five years later he was consecrated a bishop in Chicago, was assigned that same year to war-ravaged Wewak, where bombs and bullets had destroyed all of the society's mission houses and killed half of its priests, nuns and lay brothers. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Missionary Arkfeld lunged into the task of reconstruction, bought an English-made Civil Auster, then the first of three Cessnas, personally air-speeded...
...comeback champion of U.S. business so far in 1959 is a horn-handed engineer who has a word of Art Shay advice for every faltering firm: "You must compete in areas where you are prepared to compete." With this credo, Harold Eugene Churchill, 56, climbed to the presidency of Studebaker-Packard Corp. and led the company back from the brink of bankruptcy. Unlike other auto chief executives, Churchill does not compete as a supersalesman or financial whiz. He came up as an oldtime, dirty-fingernail mechanic, who still loves to tinker under an open hood. Realizing that S.P. could...
Mademoiselle crammed her voluminous journals with vivid vignettes. One episode she understandably failed to record concerned Count de Lauzun who hid under the bed of Mme. de Montespan, mistress to Louis XIV, and later mimicked her conversation back to her word for word. Mademoiselle did describe the bloodiest battle of the Fronde, when she saw the Duke de la Rochefoucauld staggering toward her, "having received a musket-ball through his eyes and nose, so that his eyes seemed to be falling out, and he kept blowing the blood away as though he feared one of his eyes might fall into...