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...House on the Prairie, reneges on an agreement to buy honey from children. In the series Alice, the son of the program's star urges her to work somewhere else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where she works as a waitress. Shirley, a black former cab driver who was the wise and friendly heroine of One in a Million, inherited a conglomerate, but she was counterpointed against another executive who was pompous, stiff and stupid...
Most regrettable is the casting of Nora Seton as Nora, who looks and sounds remarkably like Shirley Temple. When, early in the play, she twitters to her husband. "You're gonna be making a BIG salary and LOTS of money," one expects her, at any minute, to burst into a chorus of "The Good Ship Lollipop." Instead of a pampered, sheltered woman forced to realize her inner strength and need for independence. Seton's Nora is a scheming pixie. Seton gives Nora the resourcefulness of a very clever child in lieu of intelligence. We don't see Nora's growing...
Louis, who held the boxing title for 12 years, died of a cardiac arrest. Shirley Brown. nursing supervisor at Desert Springs Hospital, said yesterday...
...Democratic Party (S.D.P.). Fielding questions from some 500 reporters, the S.D.P.'s four founding leaders-all onetime Labor Cabinet members-pledged to occupy the middle ground that, in their view, has been abandoned by both the Labor Party and the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Said Shirley Williams, 50, the former Education Minister, now touted as the S.D.P.'s eventual head: "We will be a party that heals divisions in this country...
Still pending against the Enquirer are about $100 million in libel suits brought by other Hollywood figures, including Rory Calhoun, Phil Silvers, Paul Lynde, Agent Marty Ingels and Wife Shirley Jones, Ed McMahon and Rudy Vallee. Just last week, Singer Helen Reddy and Husband/Manager Jeff Wald added a $30 million suit to the tabloid's crowded courthouse calendar. Said Wald: "I feel it is ludicrous for this publication to hide behind the First Amendment. It's like someone practicing human sacrifice and justifying it based on freedom of religion...