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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1960
Page
5
The Independent prints a schedule of starting times for features at Long Beach theaters. Times are theater supplied. consult advertisements or call the theater for matinee details and further information.
Readers of The Independent and Press Telegram may win prizes by forecasting the top Oscar winners for 1959. The sweepstakes runs before the Academy Awards and lists categories including best actor and actress best supporting actor and actress best director and best picture. Room at the Top leads with six nominations, including best actor for Laurence Harvey and best actress for Simone Signoret.
The Chicago based UPI top 20 tunes list shows Percy Faith's Theme From a Summer Place at number one with He'll Have to Go by Jim Reeves in second and Bobby Rydell's Wild One in third. Other entries include Paul Anka, Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, Jimmy Jones, and Bobby Darin in varied positions with multiple artists tied to the chart.
Margaret Hamilton, a Buckingham Palace housemaid, and Anthony Gerard, a footman of Prince Philip, announce plans to marry in August. The couple follows the May 6 wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones, reshaping royal household timelines.
Investigators under House oversight probe payoffs to broadcasters in Dick Clark case. Witnesses fear reprisals over airing rights while lawyers and accountants sift through records of over 17 Clark-connected corporations. Subcommittee chairs urge careful evidence gathering before hearings.
London reports Ava Gardner boarded a Madrid to London airliner with her secretary Bill Gudpepher to avoid dogs traveling on Iberia. Pan American World Airways later indicated she would instead take a PAA jet to Idlewild, slated to arrive around 8 40 p m. Friends in Spain deny marriage plans or pressure to wed within ten months.
A two-car collision 10 miles north of Vallejo on Highway 40 killed three members of a Navy family. Sailor Elmer H. Gorsuch, 26, his wife Georgia, 25, and their 5-year-old son David died. A two-year-old daughter Crystal survived, but was in serious condition at Fairfield Hospital.
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