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...fashion again. In Massachusetts, Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill III, the 30-year-old son of House Majority Leader "Tip" O'Neill, went from the state legislature (and a seat once held by his father) to become the commonwealth's Lieutenant Governor. In Connecticut, Christopher Dodd, 30, son of the late Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd, garnered a seat in Congress. Bruce Smathers, 31, son of onetime Democratic Senator George Smathers, was elected Florida's secretary of state...
MONARCHS-IN-WAITING by WALTER J.P. CURLEY JR. 238 pages, Dodd, Mead...
...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...