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When John Fine was finally convinced that Ike was going to win the nomination, he telephoned Brownell at his office in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel and said that he was almost ready to throw his votes to Ike. But he wanted assurance that Michigan's Summerfield would go along. Said Brownell: "The only way to do this is to get Summerfield on the phone." He picked up another phone called Summerfield off the convention floor. With a telephone in each hand Fine on one and Summerfield on the other, he held the phones so each could hear...
...portrait sculptor, Jo Davidson had no peer in the U.S., and his bounce was as remarkable as his skill. He set himself no less a task than to sculpt "a plastic history of my time," and the hundreds of notables who sat for him ranged from Joseph Conrad to Frank Sinatra, from Gandhi to Mussolini. A little more than a year ago, at 68, bush-bearded Jo Davidson journeyed to Israel and found inspiration for some of his best busts. The new nation, he said, "confirmed my belief that life is eternal. It was like a phoenix rising...
Belgian Congo is a massive equatorial sponge the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi. Population: 50,000 Belgians, 11 million Bantus and Pygmies. To Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine to the heart of darkness." But Belgian bosses have made the Congo the West's greatest reservoir of strategic minerals: three-quarters of its cobalt, the bulk of its uranium. Administration: unashamed colonialism, with no nonsense about "natives' rights." The natives, under hard-working capitalism, have a living standard far above Central Africa's average...
...virtually reeled with esthetic shock when I came upon your statement . . . Such vigorous works as Robinson Jeffers' Roan Stallion and Tamar, or Conrad Aiken's Punch: The Immortal Liar, make Eliot's poetic vintage seem about as heady as a watered-down glass of school-picnic cider...
...orchestras, three bars, wine list and kitchen. Among the items which impressed the social reporters: imported 10-gallon hats for the guest list of 300, which included cinema's great and near great plus Parisienne Songstress Edith Piaf, Doris Duke, Queen Mother Nazli of Egypt, and Hotelman Conrad Hilton; 115 Cadillacs in the parking lot; five detectives hired to guard an estimated $2,000,000 worth of party jewelry; a 5 a.m. breakfast of ham & eggs and champagne; the tab for the night, which came...