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...Kennedy's favor. Senator Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut, previously a Johnson supporter, announced himself a free agent. Maine Governor Kenneth Curtis publicly recalled his admiration for Kennedy, while Vermont Governor Philip Hoff came out for him officially, as did Massachusetts Democratic Chairman Lester Hyman. In Oregon, Representative Edith Green became a leader of Kennedy's campaign group. New Jersey Governor Richard Hughes, a Johnson loyalist, admitted that he would have "a very difficult time" holding his party organization together...
...Peters) aimed his thrusts at wattled old roues ("Tell me about yourself, your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number"), besabled matrons and their derby-hatted husbands ("Come on-we're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt"), flappers with more booze than brain in their heads ("Ixnay, Edith, I just found out we're at the wrong party"). Some of his humor had a bitter quality, exemplified by the aircraft designer viewing a flaming crash with the comment: "Well, back to the old drawing board." But he was at his best with the double-entendre...
...Academy Award nominations are usually like a children's party: hardly anyone goes home without a gift. This year, favors were distributed liberally to some older participants: Katharine Hepburn (best actress) for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Dame Edith Evans (best actress) for The Whisperers. Younger guests were also smiled upon: Hollywood Newcomers Dustin Hoffman and Katharine Ross for best actor and supporting actress (The Graduate...
...well aware of the effects no change would have on the graduate schools. The American Council on Education, President Pusey, and other education officials had done a thorough job of informing him through personal meetings with Defense Secretary McNamara and Presidential aide Douglass Cater, public testimony before representative Edith Green's (D-Ore.) Special House Subcommittee on Education, and personal conversations behind the scenes...
...Wells's The Outline of History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell Wright. It is salutary to note that the first English translation of Proust...