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...Richard Nixon's political estate could hardly be lower. California's Field poll, setting up possible Republican candidates against Democratic Senator Clair Engle next year, got these trial-run results: Engle led ex-Senator William Knowland 46% to 42%, San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher 48% to 34%, Nixon...
...acre farm in the Pyrenees. But Annabella, the beautiful French movie star of the 1930s who went to Hollywood, married Tyrone Power, and became a U.S. citizen, still feels the lure of her name in lights. Popping up in Paris to see herself in a revival of Rene Clair's 1931 screen classic, Le Million, Annabella, now a graceful 53, enjoyed the movie hugely. "It brought memories of an unforgettable youth-like an immense burst of laughter." She was sad, though, about one thing-the U.S. citizenship she gave up to return to France to care for her ailing...
...many a casual concert goer, the name Claude Debussy suggests a moody, vaporous music of almost monotonous sweetness and grace. Anybody who ever sat down to a piano lesson has tinkled through Clair de Lune, and since the great Toscanini performances of the 1930s, it has been almost impossible to get through a concert season without at least one rendering of that virtuoso war horse La Mer. But there is another view of Debussy-one that audiences are being reminded of more and more often in the centennial year of his birth. Debussy was in fact, a revolutionary...
...imperturbable, he was just the sort of witness to enrage emotional Stuart Symington. With a confident smile, Humphrey dismissed the charges of exorbitant profits as "bunk" and "baloney." Right to their faces, Humphrey told South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond that he was "confused" and California's Clair Engle that he was "mixed up." To a big company like Hanna (total assets: $450 million), he said, the smelter deal was "small potatoes"; for that matter, the nickel contracts were the "tag end of our business." He had, he said, been too busy with more important Hanna interests...
...Despondent, Perrin tried suicide (poison and gas). On recovering, he took his psychiatrist's advice to drive a cab in Paris for the therapeutic value. Annoyed by gabby passengers, Perrin responded to their chatter with the same contemptuous wisecrack: "Mais tout (a ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge" (But all that is not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge)-a retort all the more effective in that Perrin had never set eyes on Maubeuge...