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...frosty-faced, warmhearted, 6-ft. 5-in. Boston blueblood (and cousin of G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate Henry Cabot Lodge), John Moors Cabot lost a job once because he just as bluntly urged that his country give more to Latin America. Two weeks before the 1954 Inter-American Conference in Venezuela, he clashed with the late Secretary of State Dulles and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, who believed that private investment should provide most of the money in Latin America. At the time, Cabot was already warning of "hard, ugly facts" in Latin America: "The peoples to the south...
...closer to home. It was the story of a popular writer, a Harvard graduate, reacting against the decadence and futile ancestor worship of his tumble-down New England family. And if the hero had the unmistakable air of the author himself-the pipe-smoking, tweedy, dressed-by-Brooks-Brothers blueblood-the hero's family was also unquestionably Marquand...
...Goodyear Theater (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). An old saw sharpened up for a new effort. When the head of the household dies and leaves no cash for the groceries, the butler comes through like a blueblood. This time it is called I Remember Caviar. Rerun...
...young Harvard-educated blueblood who is attempting to toss politics' roistering Dead End Kid, Ald. Mathias "Paddy" Bauler (43d), out of office is going to carry his fight to every precinct in the ward...
...nation's leading businessmen got a chance last week at Hot Springs, Va. to sound a clarion call for what the Government should do about the recession-but they never got the horn to their lips. Instead, the more than 100 members of the Business Advisory Council, a blueblood business group that advises the Secretary of Commerce on top policy matters, spent their semiannual meeting without reaching any clear-cut conclusions about the economy, particularly the matter...