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Goodie's boyhood was spent in substantial middle-class ease. His father indulged Goodie and his older sister Dolly, but Lil Knight, an ambitious, talented woman (she was variously a concert singer and a suffragette), preached total abstinence to her children and made free with the peachtree switch she kept in the kitchen...
...speeches punctuated with invective, references to Lil Abner, and boos and cheers from the audience, John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition, tangled with the "treason-beat" New York reporter and writer, Victor Laski, at last night's Law Forum on "Limitations on Free Expression...
...Ottawa, Parliament heard that books by Joseph Stalin and Mae West had been barred from Canada. Typical objectionable works: Joe's Questions of Leninism and Mae's Diamond Lil...
Miller's background includes musical comedies (Bonanza Bound!, Barefoot Boy with Cheek), a U.S. tour with Mae West in Diamond Lil ("she likes to have tall men around her"), a movie bit part in You're in the Navy Now, with Gary Cooper, and an Armed Forces training film where he played an "enemy" patrol leader. But this year boxing and acting together have brought him less than $1,500, or barely enough to cover the $20 a week he pays for room & board...
Died. Billy B. Van,* 80, palavering onetime vaudeville comic, who toured with Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, retired 25 years ago to manufacture soap, plugged chewing gum on the radio, emerged from retirement last year to play in Mae West's Diamond Lil; of a heart ailment; in Newport...