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Friday night the association will sponsor a speech by Conrad Lynn, chairman of the "National Committee for a Freedom Now Party." Lynn will talk in the Eliot House common room, obtained for the evening by what Anochie termed a "private arrangement...
...practiced by Kelen and his collaborator Alois Derso, the art of caricature survives today mainly in the work of newspaper editorial cartoonists, the best of whom-Bill Mauldin, Herblock, Paul Conrad of the Denver Post, Fritz Behrendt of Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad-can transcend mere exaggeration to reach with a few lines the essence of a subject's character. "It is not simply a matter of drawing a big nose bigger and a floppy ear floppier," Kelen writes. "It involves an evaluation of the inner man through his outward features. A caricature is an opinion." For 40 years...
...days later, Candidate Goldwater arrived at Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel, found himself all but smothered in a crowd of enthusiastic women-all wearing badges proclaiming them ESCORTS and all aiming to help him get through the lobby to a luncheon of the National Federation of Republican Women. Once inside, silver-haired Barry wowed the women with a few words about the Kennedy Administration: "If we have made any progress during the past three years, it has been progress in the wrong direction. It is progress along the dangerous path of accommodation of our enemies." And again he cried...
...Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby Conrad's novel Dangerfield, which deals with a Nobel prizewinner novelist who has slid down his 50s into alcoholism (Sept. 26). Conrad was once literary secretary to Sinclair Lewis. Edward Albee has adapted The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers' dark-visionary study of human grotesques...
Enjoyed your cover story of Conrad Hilton and his growing empire...