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Last week the convention assembled in Hartford. Former Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce put on a vigorous campaign for the nomination, but the state's Republican leaders were determined to have Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, and their will was done...
Yale's Clarence W. Mendell, 69, former dean of the college and for nearly a generation the "grand old Roman" of the faculty. A tweedy little man with a passion for flashy sport coats and corncob pipes, "Clare" Mendell divided his time between poring over Latin sentence connection, digging up lost Tacitus manuscripts, weeding his vegetables, and just being the sort of gentle scholar that many Yale facultymen have tried to imitate...
...that he probably could never have gained by anything so uncomplicated as dying. One by one, colleagues of both parties rose to praise him, his habits, his "fine character," his sobriety, his gentlemanly conduct, his achievements in behalf of his state and the nation. "Never," cried Michigan's Clare Hoffman, "have I smelled liquor on his breath." The entire Republican delegation from New York (with the exception of Hall) joined in sending Cole a letter of praise and commendation...
...perhaps the most successful missionary of them all. He brought into the Church such unlikely prospects as Colonel Horace Mann of Tennessee, credited with leading a mudslinging campaign against Catholic Al Smith; Heywood Broun, archliberal freethinker; Louis Budenz, managing editor of the Communist Daily Worker. Other notable converts: Author Clare Boothe Luce, Violinist Fritz Kreisler, Broadway Stage Designer Jo Mielziner, Motor Scion Henry Ford II. Recently, he has been giving instruction to the wife of a diplomat and to Screen Star Virginia Mayo. He has converted thousands of unknown people, including a hard-boiled bank robber. Says...
Whitman-Eliot won the Radcliffe intramural basketball championship yesterday, defeating Cabot, 25 to 16, in the Annex Gym. Clare Douglas paced the winners with nine points, while Sheila Gow of Cabot also tallied nine...