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...Republicans made one major concession and one minor. They agreed to a $40 million increase in price-support funds. As a favor to the "very gracious and charming gentlewoman from Ohio," Frances Bolton, they added $7,500 to pay the salary of a department marketing-news reporter for the Cleveland area. But when the chips were down, the G.O.P. ranks held firm. The final cut was a whopping $340 million...
...Chocolate Soldier (music by Oscar Straus; book by Rudolph Bernauer & Leopold Jacobson, "Americanized" by Stanislaus Stange and revised by Guy Bolton; produced by J. H. Del Bondio & Hans Bartsch) has tunes that can still send you out of the theater whistling. After almost 40 years, they have an Old World dash and melodiousness; even My Hero is not too much the worse for a thousand ship's bands and restaurant fiddlers...
Novelist Louis Bromfield was having international trouble, too. One of the Parisian characters in his three-year-old What Became of Anna Bolton was a "Madame Ritz . . . widow of the great César Ritz. . . ." He called her "a great woman," but he let her die. Last week alive-&-kicking Marie Ritz,* 79-year-old widow of the luxury-hotelman, sued Bromfield and his publishers for invasion of privacy. She noted that she had been "portrayed as dying," complained she was "being subjected to ridicule, humiliation, embarrassment and annoyance ... all to her damage in the sum of One Hundred Thousand...
Beatrix Potter was 47 when her creative life came to a sharp stop. On a trip to the Lake District she met and later married William Heelis, a gentle, retiring country lawyer. Mr. Potter was furious, but from then on, says Author Lane, Beatrix "deliberately buried Miss Potter of Bolton Gardens and became another person." She invested her royalties in farmland, flung all her energies into raising sheep. She invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years...
...been able to make ends meet. The 35? monthly (circ. 25,000) had gone into the red on every issue, was still eating up about $15,000 a month. What kept it going, besides Eileen Garrett's own money and implacable will, was a silent partner, Representative Frances Bolton (R.) of Ohio...