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Newspaper
Sarasota News
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1961
Page
5
A humorous reminiscence recalls setting concrete anchored clothes poles in the backyard with a father-in-law. The poles proved too sturdy, and after years the couple redraws them deeper to avoid snagging. After a long job, a higher clothesline and sore hands prevail, with the lesson that chores often recur tougher the second time.
Laurence Olivier's Henry V from the British production will be shown at the Ringling Museum's Asolo Theater next Wednesday with screenings at 2, 4 30, 7 and 9 30 p.m. The film, made in 1944, features Robert Newton and Esmond Knight and won an Academy Award.
NEW YORK AP Patty Duke the 14 year old star of The Mirecle Worker has been signed for her second Broadway appearance She will play the principal minor role in Isle of Children a play by Robert L Joseph presented next season by Lester Osterman Jules Dassin will stage the drama director of Never on Sunday
Broadway prizes converge as Pulitzer and Drama Critics Circle honor the same productions eight times in ten years. All the Way Home leads for 1960-61, with past dual winners including Fiorello!, Look Homeward Angel, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Teahouse of the August Moon, and Picnic.
The column reflects on the deaths of George Kaufman and others in theater and journalism, recalling Kaufman's versatile talents as writer director and performer. It notes friendships with Clark Gable Paul Kelly and Gary Cooper and contrasts Kaufman’s life with the changing Broadway and Hollywood scene. The piece laments aging creatives and ponders a future generation to fill their roles.
A Florida survey shows 748 child injuries from bicycles and other objects in 1960 61 across five counties. Boys outnumber girls, with most incidents in yards and on school grounds. Most injuries affect arms and legs from falls or impacts, not burns or electrocution.
Ned Miller, a retired knitting mill worker and bachelor in Warsaw, keeps 67 antique clocks for companionship. Each quarter hour their chimes mark the time and he tends them daily, winding eight day clocks on Sunday mornings and using a radio time signal at 6 30 for reference. The daily alarm of an ordinary table clock wakes him each morning.
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