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...flat denial that he had ever known Chambers began the long series of dramatic hearings and trials that could hardly have been better cast by Hollywood. Chambers, the emotional brooder, who claimed among his friends a New Orleans whore named One-Eyed Annie, v. Hiss, the cool, well-bred Harvard Law School graduate who had been secretary to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. In the famed "confrontation scene" in Room 1400 of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel, Hiss peered at Chambers' teeth as though examining a horse, listened to his accuser's low-pitched voice, and admitted recognizing...
When farm-bred Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin departed Moscow shortly after his successful orbit for a triumphal trek through Czechoslovakia, a West German wire service marveled: "It's Gagarin's first trip abroad." By last week, three months and several countries later, the newly cosmopolitan cosmonaut had polished his terrestrial technique, suavely met his Finnish public in a preview of this week's speechifying appearance at the Soviet Trade Fair in London...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 47, Maine's first popularly elected Democratic U.S. Senator and previously its first Catholic Governor, and Jane Frances Gray Muskie, 34, Republican-bred former Down East dress-shop clerk: their fifth child, second son; in Washington...
...days before the Really Big Rich, and few Texans could resist that sort of an appeal. Ma won. A rawboned woman with an American Gothic jaw, she looked as hard as a banker's heart. Actually, she was a college-educated, devoutly religious, well-bred woman who was about as political as peach cobbler. She was, above all, a dutiful wife. Her first act as Governor was to sign an "amnesty" restoring Farmer Jim's right to hold public office. (It was rescinded by her successor.) Though both Fergusons were teetotalers, they opposed Prohibition. In her first term...
...flown a kite to it." The audience changed most of all. The rising middle class was not interested in the fall of princes and the death of kings. The romantic, ameliorative, democratic temper could abide neither the aristocratic pride of the tragic hero nor his implacable doom. Democracy has bred the kind of mind that believes King Lear would have been better off in a home for senior citizens...