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...Died. Edith Nourse Rogers, 79, Republican Massachusetts Congresswoman f°r 35 years, a descendant of a Salem witch and longtime legislative champion of armed service veterans; of a heart attack; in Boston...
Equal to What. Doyennes of Congress in 1960 are Massachusetts' Edith Nourse Rogers, descendant of a Salem witch, who has served 35 years in the House, a record surpassed by no other woman and only nine men; and Ohio's Frances Bolton, a wealthy Clevelander, expert on African affairs (the pages call her "the African Queen"), a yoga devotee (she stands on her head every day) and an anti-feminist ("I'm not particularly anxious to be equal to a lot of things men think are so important"). Gracie Pfost, a freckle-faced Congresswoman from Idaho, represents...
LABOR: Congresswoman Edith Green, state chairman for Kennedy's Oregon forces; New Jersey's Congressman Frank Thompson Jr., nationwide chairman of Kennedy's voter-registration drive...
...Cleopatra is, as Charmian says, "a lass unparallel'd," but Miss Hepburn's is not, alas, unparallel'd. This Mt. Everest of female roles has foiled many a seasoned Shakespearean within recent memory, including Vivien Leigh. Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Newcombe, Dorothy Green, Katharine Cornell, Janet Achurch, Peggy Ashcroft, and Edith Evans (though the last two came close). The celebrated willing suspension of disbelief does not extend to accepting Miss Hepburn as a sensuous femme fatale who ages from 28 to 38. Only once is she amorously convincing, when she gradually moves in toward Antony ("Eternity was in our lips...
...worked in the great tradition of Edith Wharton, Henry James and Sinclair Lewis. But where James did mannered, brilliant black-paper silhouettes of a special world and Lewis slashed unforgettable caricatures of the world at large on slightly beer-stained sketch pads, Marquand carefully painted portraits-so smooth that one never noticed the artist at work-and conceived a world narrow enough for him to master and wide enough for the reader to enter...