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...With Rockefeller staffers renting a dozen suites at the Sheraton-Towers Hotel, at a total of $1,000 a day, Rockefeller's preparations for possible combat were massive enough to stir talk that he was contemplating a "blitz" of the type that Wendell Willkie brought off at the Republican Convention in 1940. Rockefeller encouraged the rumors by inviting all 2,662 convention delegates and alternates to a dance this week at the Sheraton-Towers. And he did nothing to suppress the busy draft-Rockefeller movement organized by San Francisco Lawyer William M. Brinton?not even when Brinton...
...Blitz & Avarice. As usual, Sahl spared neither friend nor foe, but last week he concentrated his intramural rounds on Jack Kennedy. Mort wondered if the nation was searching for a "son-figure." The Senator, Mort suggested, was a natural for TV's Father Knows Best, and he noted that Kennedy's appearance on College News Conference made sense because "kids like to talk over problems with someone their own age." Smoothing his edges somewhat when he appeared on the dais with Kennedy at Paul Butler's Beverly-Hilton dinner, Sahl pictured a line-up of war heroes...
Though others were fainthearted (the Senate adjourned to Rio until June 1), Kubitschek declared: "On Monday we start another blitz to finish Brasilia...
...Like a Cow?" For Indian university students, Expressionist Lerner is a new breed of cat. He is at home in one sense: "This is without question the wordiest, talkingest civilization I have ever encountered." But the talk of smugly anti-materialist intellectuals is no match for blitz-tongued Professor Lerner...
When she was only two, Joannah Felicity Touchet Clapton, only child of stout English stock, became one of thousands of British children sent to the U.S. to escape the London blitz. In suburban Mendham, N.J., Joannah found a second mother on a pleasant, ns-acre estate. Florence Whitney, the childless wife of a well-to-do broker and an heiress in her own right, found in Joannah a bright, ingratiating girl who soon became her whole life. Joannah's father, an infantry captain, was killed in Normandy, and Joannah's mother remarried, now lives in South Africa...