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Philadelphia. Just ten, he manifested an early maverick streak by differing with his father, a Missouri delegate who supported Wendell Willkie. Young Tom backed Thomas Dewey because, he says, "he had better buttons." As with the Kennedy clan, current events were the staple fare at the Eagleton dinner table, and it was not long before Tom was hooked on politics. "I became fascinated," he recalls. "The way other kids wanted to be farmers or firemen or cowboys, I wanted to be a politician...
Garden of Finzi-Continis--Overrated. A very heavy and sentimental Vittorio De Sica flick about the round-up of Jews in Fascist Italy. Features the most ineiegant rich clan since Visconti's The Damned. CINEMA KENMORE SQUARE...
...generally agreed that the post-Chappaquiddick Edward Kennedy is an even more effective and increasingly powerful Senate liberal. He is also conceded to be the best natural politician of the whole remarkable clan-less remote than Jack, far less abrasive than Bobby, and with an unfettered, spontaneous brio all his own. Hersh quotes a family friend as saying that Jack "went weak with pleasure" watching his young brother press flesh with the public...
Gallo was sighted at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat Fungi") Gambino, a distant relative of Carlo's, and two Brooklyn mobsters identified so far only as brothers...
...from the late 19th century to the present, a la Our Town, from Grover Cleveland and his mistress to Masters and Johnson. With obvious delight and gusto, the key actors play many men and women at various ages, and they are awfully good at it. The play concerns a clan that manufactures buttons, but Playwright Robison seems to have lost a few of his. -T.E.K...