Notable 1950s Society Aims and Openings at Gracie Mansion
New York society notes John Wayne meets Mayor Wagner at Gracie Mansion for a publicity photo. Benefit proceeds for the Police Athletic League electron-like, plus Irving Berlin’s Japan royalty check grows. Lisa Kirk’s Puerto Rico hotel room burglary. Maurice Chevalier substitutes at City of Hope. Cosby tours Hong Kong. Henry Boyer, Tropicana dancer, stars in tempus fugit notes. Ridge Howard to enter Marine Corps in June. Princess Caroline Saxe-Coburg to marry Gunther Heinzmann amid royal unease.
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Queen Victoria
Gunther Heinzmann
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Peter O'Toole Finds Balance Between Movies Money and Theater Fun
Peter O'Toole talks of choosing projects for art over cash, saying he uses film to earn money and theater for joy. He reflects on poverty, his rise from copy boy to star, and his aim to eventually play King Lear while valuing the theater's unique pull.
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Hamlet
Shylock
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Actor O'Toole recalls early theater roles and jokes
The passage notes Peter O'Toole at 32 reflecting on his early career with a line about his five minute role in Jobe Teston's The Bible. He quips about punishing sinners at Sodom and Begorrah in a playful tease about his stage work.
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Jobe Teston
Peter
Sodom
Strange Bedfellows and Goldfinger At Local Theaters
Tuesday theater listings show Paramount with Strange Bedfellows and shorts, RKO with Goldfinger and shorts, World with Sylvia and shorts, Times with Kal or Cure and Swordsman of Si ena, Marion with Sex and the Single Girl and shorts.
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Siena
Marion
Union Pacific Extends Rock Island Offer Toward Merger
NEW YORK AP Union Pacific Railroad Monday extended for the fourth time its exchange offer for Rock Island stock from Monday to April 1. Stockholders will meet May 11 to vote on the proposed merger. Rock Island shareholders approved it January 7. The offer, first made October 9, includes a contingent cash payment to acceptors.
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Union Pacific
President Johnson wears bandage after minor hand cut
White House press secretary George Reedy said the President has a small cut on the back of his hand covered with a bandage. He called it a life nick and said he is unsure where he got it.
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Johnson
White House
George Reedy
Nick
Union Pacific Offers Exchange in Rock Island Deal
Union Pacific would issue one share of new $1.50 preferred stock for each Rock Island common share. A UP spokesman said 76.7 percent of Rock Island shares have been offered for exchange so far.
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