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Authentic Brahmin. "Cabot Lodge," a fellow New Englander recently observed, "has always been sitting on top of the world. After all, he was born there." By birth, Lodge is an authentic Massachusetts Bay Brahmin, and he can count six U.S. Senators among his ancestors.* Through a paternal great-grandmother he is allied to the Cabots, a Bostonian clan perhaps only partially maligned by the old quatrain in which "the Lowells talk only to the Cabots, and the Cabots talk only to God." The Lodge fortunes piled up in the clipper-ship days are now spread fairly thin among descendants...
...House of Representatives, whose 435 members are apportioned to the states by population, is due for a reshuffle after 1960. By then, predicted the Census Bureau last week, the national nose count will be 180 million, up 29 million from 1950. On this basis, booming California, which gained seven seats after the 1950 census, will probably get another seven, boosting its total to 37. This would put it just behind New York (now 43, but slated to drop to 40), and well ahead of Pennsylvania (30 now, 27 after 1960). Other probable gainers: Florida, with three; Michigan and Texas...
...latest count, Egypt had some 400 teacher-agitators in Kuwait, 1,000 in Saudi Arabia, 400 in Libya and 100 in Syria. Iraq's Premier Nuri asSaid, killed in the July 14 revolt, had thrown Egyptian teachers out of his country, but last week, after the revolution, Cairo announced that a new detachment of 300 would be sent to help out the now friendly Iraq government. For Egypt, which has more teachers than it can use (the University of Cairo turns out huge classes of B.A.s each year, and there are too few schools to provide posts...
...Basie (Paul Quinichette, tenor sax; Shad Collins, trumpet; Nat Pierce, piano; Freddie Greene, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums; Prestige). "Count don't play nothin'," said a Basie veteran once, "but it sure sounds good." This nostalgic album is a fine reminder of what that line meant. The selection of five Basie classics (including Texas Shuffle and Diggin' for Dex) is taken from the period 1937 to 1941 and played by three veterans of the Basie rhythm section...
...Frankie Carbo, hoodlum and longtime reputed "Mr. Big" of boxing, ran afoul of a Manhattan grand jury, got socked with a ten-count indictment charging conspiracy, unlicensed matchmaking, acting as undercover manager of professional fighters by using licensed "front...