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...Kate pursued the theater with such intensity and such conviction as her fellow actors had seldom seen and generally resented. One screamed at her: "You're a freak of nature-you'll never last!" She played stock in Baltimore, studied dramatics in New York under Frances Robinson-Duff, landed a bit part in These Days, a Broadway flop. For six months she understudied Hope Williams in Holiday. Sculptor Robert McKnight, who wanted to marry her, took her to the country for an afternoon. She talked so continuously of love, life, art and Katharine Hepburn that he never...
...them in their own jargon, yet without convincing anyone of her profundity. As flip, smartly turned out professional journalist, got to know Orson Welles, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton (who lent her a cottage on his Wiltshire grounds). Although needing no introduction to high society, she was befriended by the Duff Coopers, Lord David Cecil and Lord Salisbury, good friend of Eden...
...Punitive? The big moment of the 1950 rebellion came at the Penn Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. Duff, who was planning to run for U.S. Senator, made a rousing speech urging the group to pick an anti-Grundy candidate for governor. The majority picked Fine...
John Fine was in a delicate position. He had dealt with Grundy for 30 years. But then, of course, he also owed a great deal to Duff, who had appointed him to the superior court. In characteristic fashion, Fine managed to stretch between the two forces-without tearing...
...heels of that row came a related one, the Taft-Eisenhower issue. Last month the anti-Grundy group met again. Jim Duff came up from Washington. Conspicuously missing: John Fine. The group's decision: John Fine ought to come out immediately for Ike. Otherwise, Fine would either 1) be "on the freight," i.e., go for Eisenhower too late to do himself any good, or 2) be stuck with the man (Taft) who, the leaders thought, was sure to lose in November...