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Many of them concern shady ladies and double meanings. All are delivered in a scrape-fiddle soprano, with a prodigality of gesture and squirrel teeth. Perhaps Elsa's audiences like best the one about a wealthy, overstuffed New England heiress who builds a gazebo (latticed bower) in which to trap a mate. She coyly invites...
...Right Bower. As Ed's successor, the convention picked shaggy-browed Allan Kline, 52, of Iowa, who has long been Ed's right bower and the Farm Bureau's vice president for two years. An enthusiastic student of philosophy, economics and history, Kline is a hog farmer with a distaste for colloquialisms. He has a town house in Des Moines and a farm in Benton County which boasts a swimming pool, tennis court, and gaited horses. He is an independent Republican. Deliberate and shrewd, Kline believes in a relatively low level of parity and a thriving foreign...
Meanwhile, Elizabeth was trying desperately to decide on a future bower (Windlesham Moor in Surrey was still the odds-on bet), and the gifts were piling up. at St. James's Palace. Among them...
...chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying "go back to Poland," Hansard reported it this way: "At this juncture the Honorable Member for Seaham crossed the floor of the House and struck the Honorable and Gallant Member for Cleveland a blow on the face...
Last week, 34 days after she flagged the wrong driver, Bergen County admitted that Susan Bower had a right to keep her mouth shut. Turning down all offers, "Susan" put on her dungarees, pocketed her $14, and set out for Manhattan. Later, she said, she would hitchhike to Florida...