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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jun 11, 1961

Page

6

Two Loves brings MacLaine amid Maori education drama

Shirley MacLaine stars as Anna Voronto a devoted schoolteacher in Two Loves with Laurence Harvey and Jack Hawkins as two men who seek to win her. The film set among Maori life features a classroom full of diverse children, a sympathetic headmaster and an aged Maori chief as supporting players. It plays tonight through Thursday at Bowline Drive In Theater.

Laurence Harvey Jack Hawkins Harvey Paul Vercoe Hawkins Abercrombie Anna Whareparita Nobu Charles Walters Ronald Long Norah Howard Juano Hernandez Bowline Drive Shirley Maclaine Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sylvia Ashton-Warner Bowline Drive In

Polly Bergen Returns to Film After Eight-Year Break

Hollywood star Polly Bergen, once discovered in Hollywood, begins her first movie in eight years alongside Greg Peck and Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear. She explains leaving acting to marry Freddy Fields and raise two children in New York, then returning as his work keeps him in Hollywood.

Hollywood Polly Bergen Greg Peck Robert Mitchum Cape Fear Freddy Fields New York Fields Polly Helen Morgan Hollyw MCA

Mein Kampf film paints Nazi rise with archival footage

A new Columbia Pictures release uses Goebbels archives and global footage to tell the Nazi rise to power from Hitler’s childhood through the Rhineland and Sudetenland. Edwin Leiser edited images to explain how Hitler seized control and built the murder machine.

Adolph Hitler Storm Troopers Columbia Princess Theater Hollywood Columbia Pictures Hitler Reich West Berlin Poland France Great Britain United States Soviet Union Edwin Leiser San Francisco Europe Leiser Hindenburg von Papen Hess Goering Rhineland Austria Sudetenland Czechoslovakia

Hollywood TV stars and timing impact careers paste

Polly recalls low commission on early TV work and fame on To Tell the Truth in New York as Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant fans watch. Gene Barry discusses shifting from stage to radio and TV to movies then Bat Masterson and finally night clubs with a bounced paycheck illustrating the volatile entertainment cycle.

Polly Spencer Tracy Cary Grant New York Hollywood Gene Barry Bat Masterson Barry Gene

Decatur High Class of 1936 Reunion at Woodall Barbecue

The 1936 class gathered at Woodall Barbecue Friday night for a 25th reunion with class president P. H. Sandlin presiding. Reunion Committee members included Mr. and Mrs. Ray Handley Mrs. Leon Martin Miss Lula Mae Boggs Mrs. Luther Sellers Mrs. James Braswell and Jack Smith. Faculty representatives were Mrs. Lillian Odom and Mrs. Florence Smith.

Decatur High School Woodall P. H. Sandlin Ray Handley Leon Martin Lula Mae Boggs Luther Sellers James Braswell Jack Smith Lillian Odom Florence Smith

Checkmate Star Anthony George Struggles With Weight

Anthony George of CBS Checkmate explains a grueling schedule that keeps him at 5:30 a.m. workouts and 12 hour days while filming. He carries a heavy portion of the season’s workload and plans July theater work to stretch his acting range.

New York Anthony George Bachelor George Don Corey CBS Doug McC@lure Tony Sebastian Cabot George Endicott N.Y Paul Douglas Vivian Blaine Studio One Web Mr. Roberts Charlotte N.C West Hollywood

Diamonds bring in over nineteen million in five months

The government reports that Sierra Leone diamond sales in the first five months of 1961 totaled more than 19.6 million dollars.

Freetown, Sierre Leone Sierre Leone

Auburn editors face trustees after Freedom Riders clash

Auburn University faced campus uproar as The Plainsman editor Jim Bullington called for integration and condemned mob violence. A seven foot cross was burned before his fraternity house and a Plainsman fire occurred on the drill field after his May front page. Trustees later approved a resolution requiring editors to consult the dean before publication.

Auburn Board of Trustees Integrated Freedom Riders South Birmingham Montgomery Jim Bullington The Plainsman Auburn Freedom Riders Sigma Pi Bullington Non Chattanooga Tenn

No Name Jive Death Suspect in Spine Hemorrhage Case

London AP reports 17 year old June Dalton died after a violent jive with police pathologist Dr. Francis Camps attributing death to hemorrhage of the neck spine. The injury could have been caused by the dance move and the incident remains under inquiry.

London June Dalton Francis Camps

Auburn University Editorial Freedom Questioned By Board

The Auburn Board of Trustees discussed editorials and public affairs impact on the university's good name. The Plainsman faced censure by the Board of Student Publications for overstatement and lack of judgement. Bullington defended press freedom and called the board's action unjustified.

Auburn University Bullington Plainsman Chattanooga Auburn Ralph Draughon

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