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...Playwrights' Company will offer Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy, starring Deborah Kerr and telling of a schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality; Elmer Rice's The Winner; and Samuel Taylor's Sabrina Fair (already sold to the movies as a vehicle for Audrey Hepburn), featuring Barbara Bel Geddes as an American girl readjusting to life at home after three years in Paris...
This month, for the first time, Lesbia expects to play in the National Amateur championship, where she will be up against such topnotchers as Seattle's Pat Lesser, Georgia's Mary Lena Faulk and Barbara Romack of Sacramento. The thought of "so many of them all so good" prompted Lesbia to get down to a bit of practice last week. Lesbia did not expect to burn up the practice course: "The only time I really like to play is in a tournament. I don't know why, but I just do better with all those people staring...
...court from his sickbed, and Mercy Killer William R. Jones, 62, who sat at his side to be sentenced-wept with compassion for each other in Detroit one day last week. The judge's tears came as he considered the anguish which led Jones to electrocute his wife, Barbara, a sufferer from incurable diabetes, who had lost both legs and suffered agonizing pain. Jones wept as the judge explained that he could not condone the killing but could only "show you every consideration." "I want to thank you," said Jones, after getting a one-to-five-year sentence...
After triumphantly brushing past a maid who had orders to keep her out, Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller, estranged wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, consolidated her beachhead in his 15-room Park Avenue apartment by winning permission to come & go as she pleased. Winthrop was in Little Rock. Ark., ostensibly to go into business but more likely to qualify himself for a divorce after three months' residence. Scoffed Bobo: "He's not the barefoot-boy type. He has not suddenly fallen in love with the heartland of America." For a self-proclaimed old-fashioned girl, twice-married Bobo (her first...
...Barbara Ward...