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...scene is accompanied by an din on rival Fibber McGee's , the percussion including drums, cymbals, xylophone, woodblocks, ratchet, and everything but the kitchen . But Amram's songs are fine, including one that he had turned into 9 three-voice canzonet...
Died. Marian Jordan, 62, who played the scolding but sympathetic Molly to husband Jim Jordan's boastful, bumbling Fibber on NBC Radio's Fibber McGee and Molly for nearly 20 years; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Marian and Jim Jordan were small-time vaudevilleans from Peoria, III., before they hit the big time at 79 Wistful Vista, radio home of the McGees, wowing audiences of up to 20 million with Fibber's cluttered closet and Molly's standard, " 'Tain't funny, McGee...
...Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee. Webb will give up interests in both firms to go to NASA, where his organizational talents are badly needed...
...remote shots of delegates until viewers expected to see the screen dissolve into a creepee-peepee interview with a delegate who had got lost in a Pasadena supermarket. NBC had its own dogged, creepee-peeping reporters on the floor-notably Martin Agronsky, Sander Vanocur, Herb Kaplow, Merrill Mueller, Frank McGee-but they never kept NBC from staying close to the main flow of developments...
...will be used to set up 75 four-year scholarships (average cost: $1,000 a year) for the ablest youngsters O.C.U. can find. Score card to date: 21 scholarships, awarded to high school seniors throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Casting a bit of sarcasm at Oklahoma U.. Oilman McGee said: "We aim to recruit bright students just like Bud Wilkinson recruits that football team...