Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fred Astaire, né Austerlitz, started out in vaudeville. But Fred, 74, has long since soft-shoed his big sister Adele, 75, into the shadows. Now Fred's career as he tapped his way from Omaha to Hollywood has been choreographed in Starring Fred Astaire (Dodd, Mead & Co.). Making his theatrical debut as Roxane, Fred, 6, was the foil for Sister Adele's Cyrano de Bergerac in a junior production at their first dancing school in Manhattan. The tyro terpsichores are also glimpsed performing a bride-and-groom routine atop a prop wedding cake, with an incipiently suave...
...interesting to note that Sen. Thomas Dodd of Connecticut was censured from the Senate and died of grief because he misused about $4,000 in government funds. Richard M. Nixon shows no signs of remorse about having spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of government monies for private purposes...
...come-ons--"READ ALL ABOUT IT! What the 'Games Congressmen Play' are--from 'politics of deference' to congressional love and marriage to the secret hideaway offices of the Capitol rulers"--the report exudes sensationalism. The authors rehash the escapades of John Dowdy. Adam Clayton and that "malign genius" Thomas Dodd: they compare companies sending funds through campaign committees to "crooks lugging baskets of dirty money to be washed through legitimate business." Frequently witty--"The ideal staff must be like the ideal hairpiece; effective but unobtrusive"--and often sarcastic--"Congress has sponsored a building boom inspired by the judgment and tasteful...
Edited by DAN H. LAURENCE 1,017 pages. Dodd, Mead...
...photographs for yesterday's Crimson extra were taken by Fred Dodd '75. We regret the omission of appropriate credits...