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...reddish-haired young woman in the bare shade of 30 named Ava Lavinia Gardner. Movie bigwigs, whose vocabularies are more limited, put their praises in calmer terms than Serior Cabre. But from the Olympian executives in the Bel Air hills to the plebeian pressagents down on Wilshire Boulevard, the consensus is that Ava Gardner may well turn out to be the best thing for Hollywood since the late Jean Harlow...
...this chilly consensus was melted last week by a powerful voice that spoke up in the cadets' behalf. New York's Cardinal Spellman announced that he had asked the three Catholic men's colleges in his archdiocese-Fordham University, Manhattan College and lona College-to admit the cadets. All three colleges said they would-adding that no cadet would be allowed to play on any varsity team. "To err is human," said Francis Cardinal Spellman, "to forgive, divine...
...Chicago Bar Association had voted on Douglas' two recommendations to the Illinois federal bench against the two Harry Truman picked instead (TIME, July 30). The lawyers favored one Douglas choice by 2-to-1 vote, the other by 6 to 1. In another poll, it was the consensus of the northern members of the Illinois Bar Association that one of the Truman men, Joseph Drucker, a municipal court judge and nephew of 85-year-old Congressman Adolph J. Sabath, is not even qualified...
...summer, the Prince Royal made his first public appearance, somewhat in the style of a Hollywood sneak preview. Without previous announcement, Baudouin sped in a car to the tomb of Belgium's unknown soldier, deposited a wreath. A dozen or so accidental bystanders were his only public. The consensus was that the princely starlet conducted himself well, but would need a lot more experience in the spotlight before he was a full-fledged royal star...
Juvenile Jury (Tues. 8:30 p.m., NBCTV) has a panel of five moppets who solve such special problems as what a little girl should do with a horse she won on a giveaway show (the consensus: sell it). After five years on radio, most of the juvenile jurymen are sufficiently grooved in show business to upstage each other, mug heavily at every wisecrack, and slip effortlessly into a Scotch Tape commercial...