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YOUR FEB. 13-"DUEL IN THE SUNSHINE" FAILED TO REPORT KEFAUVER HAD NO TV TIME, THEREFORE COULD ENJOY BEING "INTERRUPTED 43 TIMES BY APPLAUSE." WE WHO ARE FOR STEVENSON ARE SMARTING UNDER THE TREMENDOUS COSTS OF BROADCASTING RATES, KNOWING OUR MAN SELDOM MAKES HIS TIME ALLOTMENT BECAUSE OF ENTHUSIASTIC INTERRUPTIONS...
...only thing you seem to be interested in these days," said Dukas. That slap in the face and the stern lecture that followed sent Rubinstein to the country and a milk diet. But after a short while there was another love affair ("Terrible, terrible-I had to fight a duel with the husband"), and Rubinstein was soon thin as a stick again...
...Eggheads, Arise!" From those dissimilar starts, Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver last week began their duel in the sunshine-the preferential primary fight for California's 68 votes at the Democratic National Convention. At the beginning it did not seem much of a fight. Almost all of the party leaders and Democratic money in California are pledged for Stevenson. Kefauver's supporters could only resort to an appeal over the heads of the leaders; they had to cancel a scheduled television show at week's end because they did not have enough money...
...duel begins. The interrogator goes over the cardinal's past with a mind magnetized to attract every particle of experience that carries a negative charge. "I am proud," the cardinal smilingly confesses. "All my life [I have] shirked nothing, ducked nothing, overcome everything." All day no rest, all night no sleep. One day an old woman is wheeled into the interrogation chamber on a stretcher: it is his mother. She will be sent to the research hospital, the doctor says, unless there is a confession. The exhausted cardinal breaks down, recovers, refuses. "I do not love my mother...
Exit Ludwig. A duel in the Bois de Boulogne (afterwards, Lola looked smashing in her bereaved-mistress' weeds) set her firmly in the center of what would now be called cafe society. But her real career began when she was engaged to dance in Munich and bewitched old King Ludwig (her bodice tore at just the right moment and place). Lola moved into the posh palace he built for her in Munich and prepared to run the country. Then, as now, advanced ideas were a prime source of self-advertisement, and Lola had absorbed a set of "bold...