Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), well-poised bishop on the rostrum rapped for order and the 700-odd members settled down. So this week, at the 100th annual Conference of the Southern California-Arizona Methodist Church at the University of Redlands, 71-year-old Bishop Alexander Preston Shaw became the first Negro to preside full-time over a conference of white Methodists...
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...inattentiveness of California's voters produced one odd result. Grey-haired, mother-looking Bernadette Doyle, noisy and self-proclaimed Communist who ran on a nonpartisan ticket, gathered in close to 400,000 votes. The state job which Communist Doyle sought but did not get: State Superintendent of Public Instruction...
...answer, he decided, was a program that presented both sides fairly. Since fewer than 1% of the million-odd letters that have poured in from listeners have criticized his objectivity, Denny believes he has succeeded. Long carried as a prestige show by ABC, Town Meeting this year was cut from an hour to 30 minutes, picked up the local sponsorship of more than 60 banks, newspapers, labor unions and assorted businesses. Denny and many of his fans feel that the Meeting has lost something by the time cut, and he hopes to go to three-quarters of an hour...
...also pursued by his boss's daughter (Elizabeth Taylor), an amateur student of psychiatry. Krasna has fleshed out the farce idea with a curious subplot about the law firm's efforts to keep a Chinese-American tenant out of a "restricted" apartment building. The result makes an odd layer cake composed" of alternate slabs of slapstick and preachment, none of it very digestible...