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WHEN WILLIAM POWELL. Boston brahmin dropout from the purposeless life of the idle rich reveals at the end of La Cava's My Man Godtrey that his idea of how to cure Depression America's woes is to build nightclubs staffed by the unemployed, the letdown we feel is the characteristic failure of. Hollywood comedies about social problems. Throughout the film. Powell describes the injustice of a system which permits the callous extravagance of the society families he serves as butler, yet when the smoke clears the flowing champagne on Sulton Place drowns the social' criticism which gave the film...
...held three different Cabinet posts under Nixon: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Defense and Attorney General. He was also an Under Secretary of State whose administrative ability impressed even Kissinger, then the President's adviser for national security affairs. For a slightly standoffish Boston Brahmin, Richardson gets along well on the Hill. His dramatic resignation during the Saturday Night Massacre made him a kind of hero: at an auction last year, one of his celebrated doodles fetched $1,000. Now the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Richardson, in an indiscreet moment, confided...
With his lean good looks, impeccable tailoring and unflappable poise, McCloskey seems the very model of a Brahmin born to wear striped pants. But McCloskey has worked as a bartender and a newsman and fought as a Marine during World...
...Actress Katharine Hepburn is still the Brahmin beauty edged with bitchiness who gets her way. During her career she has matched her free-spirited will against the strongest male personalities in show business. John Barrymore, Spencer Tracy, Humphrey Bogart, Sir Laurence Olivier and Paul Scofield are among those who failed to upstage her. One star she had always wanted to work with was Wayne, and when she was offered the chance she snapped it up. "I decided to grab him before it was too late...
Died. George Frazier, 63, acerbic, eccentric newspaper columnist; of lung cancer; in Cambridge, Mass. A self-styled Brahmin, Frazier was the Harvard-honed son of a fire inspector. After making his name as a jazz critic, ubiquitous freelance and LIFE writer, the widely read gadfly went on to ramble polysyllabically about style, taste and whatever else he fancied in his Boston Herald and, later, Boston Globe columns. Proud of his image as a professional snob-he proclaimed the common man an "ill-clad, ill-spoken hooligan"-Frazier brought his own hot dogs to baseball games and named among...