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...Second Bachelor. In the highly unlikely event of Dick Russell's becoming President, he would be the second bachelor-President in U.S. history.* His mother always urged him to pay some attention to the new schoolteacher or some other Georgia maid, but his father's advice seemed to have more effect. Said the judge: "Marry your work if you are going into a public career...
...bachelor-Senator might become quite a social lion in Washington, but Dick Russell is no partygoer. "I got caught up with that during my first year in Washington," he says. "I went up there with the country idea that if you were invited anywhere you had to go or you would be impolite. That liked to killed me the first year...
With that, the crowd gave her the biggest hand of the night. Obviously, much of the applause was for Nancy and her winning ways-not necessarily for what she said. But even the other candidates and their spokesmen on the program seemed to go for this Kefauver. Said Bachelor Dick Russell: "Kefauver's chief accomplishment is that he outmarried himself to such an extent. His wife is his most dangerous secret weapon ... If I were running with Mrs. Kefauver, I'd be glad to accept second place." Ohio's Representative Clarence Brown, on hand to speak...
Asbestos Millionaire Tommy Manville decided that his 28-room mansion in New Rochelle, N.Y., which his last eight wives called home, was too large for temporary bachelor living. He bought a full-page ad in the local paper to announce,"The House of Brides for Sale," and made plans to move into a cozier $125,000 ranch-type house on a nearby peninsula...
...reason Berlin can't sleep much at night may be that, as one of Manhattan's most chronic stayer-uppers (mostly with the bachelor Hoffman, who supplies him with the gossip of which he is so fond), he seldom uses nights for going to bed. This is only natural; the first half of his life was taken up with occupations that shunned the sun: waif on the Lower East Side, warbling ballads in saloons for small coins; singing waiter in a Bowery joint; song-plugger in the cabarets after theater hours; man-about-Times Square and minstrel...