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...versifier (and editor of an early rhyming dictionary) greeted Frost as a professional colleague and earned his ire. "Would he claim equality with me?" fumed Frost to Untermeyer, "more claimant than clement." With T. S. Eliot, Frost could not resist a further pun. "We both like to play," he wrote, "but I like to play euchre. He likes to play Eucharist...
...Kefauver's Senate successor, Tennessee Governor Frank Clement, 43, named an aging, ailing politician who is obviously going to Washington just to keep the seat warm. He is longtime Democratic National Committeeman Herbert S. ("Hub") Walters, a millionaire roadbuilder, banker and natural-gas distributor. Walters is 71, and has twice undergone surgery for malignant tumors, including a 1948 throat operation that cost him his vocal cords. As a result, he cannot speak above a hoarse whisper. There is every likelihood that Walters will step down next year to permit Clement himself to run for the remaining two years...
...Clement Janequin's Four Chansons, which greeted the overflow audience after intermission, more than compensated for the Chamber Singers' early misfortunes, however. They were a quartet of jewels that would have enhanced any royal collection. Especially memorable was La Plus Bells de la Ville, a flirtatious ode to the prettiest girl in town. La Chante des Oyseaulx (Song of the Birds), a fantasy that includes imitations of bird sounds, was superb, shimmering with brilliant clusters of sound. Toutes les Nuictz was a translucent ruby, a deep and haunting love song. The Camerata Players also redeemed themselves in the Janequin with...
Foot leaves his hero on the eve of taking office as Minister for Health in the postwar Socialist government of Clement Attlee. It was the only real national power Bevan ever attained, and he put into operation Britain's system of free medical and dental services. The final ironies of his career lay in the future, when the prosperous electorate repudiated Socialism and bit the hand that fed it. What is more, it bit with Nye Sevan's free false teeth...
...hours later, radios blared the government version: the Barbots were caught setting fire to a cane field outside Port-au-Prince and were killed resisting arrest. Pictures of the riddled bodies were passed out to newspapers. But many superstitious Haitians believe that Clement Barbot lives on, and black dogs on the street draw fearful sidelong glances...