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...House was not so much interested in the fact that Powell had been a brazen junketeer at public expense, billed the Government for umpteen trips to his beach home in Puerto Rico, put his wife on a $13,000 secretarial salary, and sharply increased the spending of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is chairman. What really bugged the boys was Powell's defense-he insisted that he had only done "what every Congressman does," and he castigated his critics as being anti-Negro...
Sneakin commercials are nothing new to the movies, but the studios have become increasingly brazen about hustling advertising. Paramount now has a full $5,000,000 in advertisers' money tied up in promotion of its pictures, and Columbia was happy to cast Danny Kaye as The Man from the Diners' Club, a movie that makes the point that love cannot help but come to the man who carries a credit card...
...made brazen advances to the dominant male, but was rebuffed each time...
...first jobs after leaving Oxford-"A terribly humble job," he says, "a hopeless kind of job"-was as a general rewrite man and assistant circulation manager for the art magazine Connoisseur. But after a year of drudgery, Wilson felt he had learned enough about antiques to brazen it out at Sotheby's. For his first auction in 1938, he practiced all weekend by "auctioning" off every stick of their furniture to his young wife and their baby's nurse. Even now he scarcely sleeps the night before a sale. "Selling pictures is not like selling boots," he says...
Kennedy Aboard the PT 100, to fight the brazen...