Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chicago-born Correspondent Steele. 39, came to TIME from the United Press in 1953, first covered Capitol Hill before he moved over to the White House a little more than a year ago. Since then he has seldom been far away from the President. Because the White House, like a turtle shell, goes wherever its principal occupant goes, the job of being a White House correspondent is by definition an itinerant one. With the President, Steele has crisscrossed the U.S., flown down to Panama and, recently, out to California for the Republican Convention...
...Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to dinner in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite to enlist their aid for Ave. With high hopes that a convivial evening and some earnest talk would do the job, Truman produced a bottle of bourbon and, in the long-established spirit of Capitol Hill, proposed that the three "strike a blow for liberty."* But the food was an unfortunately long time in arriving and, although the evening was mighty convivial, a top Truman aide confessed later: "They just never did get down to any kind of conclusive talk." It was only the first...
Last week the sharpshooting young (40) governor found he had fallen wide of the mark. In a hotly contested primary election, the "many" dumped Fred Hall from the copper-domed State Capitol, sidetracked his frank hopes to parlay Kansas popularity into an eventual trip to Washington...
Lucky Six. "A pal and I used to go see Willie The Lion at his club-the Capitol Palace-and Fats Waller at the Orient, and they'd let us sit in and cut in on the tips," Duke recalls. "Every day we'd go play pool until we made $2. With $2 we'd get a pair of 75? steaks, beer for a quarter, and have a quarter left for tomorrow." He did his own housework, including mending and pressing his tailor-made suits, always impeccably kept. Periodically, there was work for his five-man combo...
...CAPITOL OFFENSE, by Jocelyn Davey (253 pp.; Knopf; $3), is set in and around the British embassy in Washington. The dust jacket accurately describes it as "an entertainment." There are a couple of murders, but in the main the book is a witty, lighthearted spoof of the diplomatic set-including the Americans, the French, the South Americans, the Russians and, of course, the British, who are able to spoof themselves more tellingly than anyone else...