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Adjournment was in the air and Congressmen were itching to get back home for some electioneering. Impatient and brisk as a commuter trying to make a train, the Senate bundled a lot of legislation into a drawer and pushed it out of sight. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry looked at Majority Floor Leader Scott Lucas' list of 22 "must" bills, and agreed to cooperate if it was whittled down to six: expansion of social security, extension of the draft and MAP, the omnibus $29 billion appropriation bill, a bill cutting excise taxes, and a final attempt to pass FEPC...
Kinks & Quirks. Since then, scholars who recognized her as a top-drawer American poet have been trying to get their hands on the originals. The Dickinson family, perhaps in Emily's own reticent spirit, put the scholars off for more than 50 years. The family's main concession: doling out heavily edited volumes of Emily's verse, with many omissions and with arbitrary changes in diction and punctuation designed to make her revolutionary prosody and bold use of words more acceptable to conventional taste. Biographers wanted to know why good-looking Emily ("My hair is bold, like...
...Protestant Episcopal Church served notice last week that it was no longer satisfied with what it could do on its regular budget-$5,634,617 a year for the next three years. To raise some big money, 20 top-drawer financiers and industrialists announced the formation of the Episcopal Church Foundation under the presidency of Wall Streeter (Harriman Ripley & Co.) Pierpont V. Davis. No mean job of fund-raising was cut out for them; Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill's "modest" estimate of the church's extrabudgetary needs for the next ten years...
While traveling in Europe last July, Bargain Hunter Heil dropped in at a tourist art shop in Florence, asked the proprietress if she had "anything old" on hand. She opened a drawer, pulled out a wooden panel containing a portrait of 16th Century Venetian Doge Leonardo Lore-dano, observed that she had long thought it might be the work of the great Venetian painter, Gentile Bellini. Heil took a sharp look, decided she was probably right and closed the sale on the spot. Later, Italian experts confirmed his verdict, and he shipped the picture...
...Playwright Terence Rattigan stuck fairly closely to the facts of the Archer-Shee case, while rigging them skillfully for theatrical effect. In the movie version, Scripters Rattigan and Anatole de Grunwald stick too closely to the play. As a result, despite some superior dialogue and top-drawer British acting, the film plods along with more patience than it is likely to find in U.S. moviegoers...