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Cathy was a vicious slut but Adam didn't know that. Steinbeck has made her a dish of distilled evil, one of the most implausible women in fiction's gallery. As a young, sweet-looking girl she had murdered her parents, burned the family home and skipped off to Boston. There she became the mistress of a man who ran a string of brothels, drove him mad with jealousy and was almost beaten to death by him. When she crawled...
...Massachusetts, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, 50, faces a redoubtable opponent: Representative John Kennedy, 35, a war hero,† a good Congressman and an excellent campaigner. Catholic Jack Kennedy has spent the last year charming Massachusetts' voters, lately at tea parties organized by women Democrats. They brew a big dish of tea, invite scores of citizens to meet his mother and his pretty sisters. Then Jack shows up to shake hands. The "internationalist" son of "isolationist" Businessman Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (1937-40), Jack has deep family roots in Massachusetts...
...pictures hung: on the right, a small (28 in. by 35 in.) Infant Jesus, believed to be a Rubens; on the left, Angel Playing Violoncello, attributed to Raphael. Down came the paintings, frames and all. From concealed drawers the thieves took finely wrought vestments and a gold wafer dish. Then out they went, as silently as they had come. Paris newspapers estimated their choosy haul at 50 to 60 million francs ($142,860 to $171,430). His missing pictures were not insured, but the Duc de Luynes took it with a shrug. Said he: "What a bore! Just...
...husband's painting career began, she confided, at Fort Myer, Va. (when he was on duty at the nearby Pentagon after the war). He just called for "a rag, thumb tacks and a board." The rag turned out to be a dish cloth on which he painted an oil portrait of Mamie. "I just don't know the word for it," she said...
While there seems to have been no bona-fide clairvoyants, the campus boasted a surplus of phonies. Mental telepathy and thought transmission had become the latest fad in an era where undergraduates bit eagerly at any dish labeled exotic. There was Margery, who claimed telepathy limbs, and Dr. and Mrs. Crandon, another pair of popular mediums. The University, in an attempt to rip the blinders off a gullible populace, persuaded several instructors to sign up for seances to expose the spiritualists. Subsequently, the pair of prestidigitators packed up and left the town...