Backus on Screen Roles and a Heavy Suit of Silences
Hollywood column profiles actor Jim Backus as the sympathetic friend type and laments the bias toward heavies and fashionably dressed gangsters. He notes his own plain, dull suit as his screen uniform and reveals plans for more straight parts and TV work with Joan Davis.
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Hollywood
Jim Backus
Redcoats
Washington
Jim
Backus
Arthur Kennedy
New Hope
Jean Simmons
Leon Ames
Joan Davis
Joan
Androcles and
Curtis LeMay
Air Force
Round Hill Social Roundup Highlights Birthday Dinner
Mrs. Grover Carper hosted a Friday birthday dinner for her husband with guests including Mr and Mrs Albert Pingley and family, Mr and Mrs Tom Carper and daughters Peggy and Nancy, the W H Williams family with Gloria Jean, and other Round Hill residents. Community Center set a ham and oyster supper for November 7.
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Round Hill
Grover Carper
Albert Pingley
Tom Carper
Peggy
Nancy
W. H. Willams
Gloria Jean
Albert Robertson
Linwood Dunn
Gary
Colleen Watkins
Anna Rosier
Boyce
R. F. Bradfield
W. W. Brewer
Raymond Hollar
Arthur White
Ernest Ashwood
Stanley Watkins
George McNabb
Susie and
Arlington
George Rosser, Jr
C. J. Keckley
Georege L. Rosser
Recent Guests and Social Calls Across Virginia Towns
Mr and Mrs Sam Burall hosted visitors including Walter Zimm erman Ruth and Bobby from Unionville Maryland Kenneth VanSice from Erie Floyd Childs John Beeler of Baltimore Vernon Haines and Fred Johnston from Winchester. Bayliss spent weekend in Charlottesville with Stanley Boyce. Mrs Sheridan Luttrell guests of Andy Nesselrodt Broadway. Briscoe Snapp family called on Mrs Fred Gore Stephens City. Albert Ritter Wardensville called on Lor ing Ritter. Mrs Charles Barton visited sister Mrs Harry Funk Woodstock. Richard Stine and children called on Betty Dodson Mountain Falls. Loring Ritter Clyde Logan spent Sunday in Woodstock with friends.
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Kernstown
Sam Burall
Walter Zimmerman
Ruth
Bobby
Unionville
Kenneth VanSice
Erie
Floyd Childs
John Beeler
Baltimore
Vernon Haines
Fred Johnston
Winchester
Roy Bayliss
Charlottesville
Stanley Boyce
Sheridan Luttrell
Andy Nesselrodt
Broadway
Briscoe Snapp
Fred Gore
Stephens City
Albert Ritter
Wardensville
Loring Ritter
Charles Barton
Harry Funk
Woodstock
Richard Stine
Betty Dodson
Mountain Falls
Clyde Logan
Henry Clay and the Missouri Compromise Question
The remark I would rather be right than President is attributed to Henry Clay. He set out as a candidate in 1822 and faced defeats in 1824, 1832, and 1844, missing the nomination to William Henry Harrison.
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A. Henry Clay
Clay
John Quincey Adams
Andrew Jackson
James K. Polk
William Henry Harrison
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Glenn-Aire
U. S
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Lalani
Skyla
Rosetta
Dutt's Waffle
Schimmel's Grape
Far
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DEAE
N. Braddock St
Sleepy Hollow
New England
Bot
Sunnybank Margarine
Morning Star
Wee
Canterbury
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Kellogg's
Somerset & Briggs Hot Dogs
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