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FOR substance and originality it would be difficult to improve on Norman Corwin's "The Rivalry." After 100 years the Lincoln-Douglas debates are still pertinent and exhilarating. Thanks to the impact of the acting, the festive simplicity of the production and the discretion of the editing and playwriting, "The Rivalry" makes tonic use of the theatre.
FOR the last three decades, a national institution called Gertrude Berg has played a warmhearted, wholesome, chatty, inquisitive and practically irresistible Jewish hausfrau from the Bronx on radio, television, the stage and screen.
Bobbie Brooks and Nellie Don went down to Wall Street the other day, but not to see the sights. Instead the pair from the Middle West sold $3,500,000 worth of stock to the public.
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INTERVIEWED as he was getting on the train for Boston, E. M. Forster was asked how he felt on the eve of his first visit to Harvard. He replied that he had heard that there were some particularly deep readers of his books to be found in Cambridge. He expected to be questioned closely by them, and this worried him.
1959Ali Campbell, English singer-songwriter and musician[†]
Alistair Ian Campbell is an English singer and songwriter who was lead singer and co-founder of the British reggae band UB40.
1959Joseph R. Gannascoli, American actor[†]
Joseph R. Gannascoli is an American actor and chef. He is best known for his portrayal of Vito Spatafore on the HBO series The Sopranos.
1959Brian Propp, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster[†]
Brian Phillip Propp is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League, from 1979 to 1994. He featured in five Stanley Cup Finals with three different NHL teams and won the 1987 Canada Cup with Team Canada.
1959Hugo Savinovich, Ecuadorian wrestler and sportscaster[†]
Hugo Savinovich is an Ecuadorian sports commentator and retired professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager. He is signed to Lucha Libre AAA as a Spanish commentator. He is best known as part of the Spanish language commentary team for the professional wrestling promotion WWE from 1994 to 2011.
1959Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1879)[†]
Sir Owen Willans Richardson was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
In 1959, the world population was approximately 2,965,950,351 people[†]