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...grateful celebration" of their 50th wedding anniversary, New York's Democratic ex-Governor and Senator, Herbert H. Lehman, 82, and his wife Edith gave a $500,000 present to the children of New York City. The money was accepted by the city for construction of a children's zoo that Lehman envisions in Central Park, just across the street from the Leh-mans' longtime place of worship, Temple Emanu...
...Barnes often said, was just a cheap and wholesome substitute for prostitution. He delighted in bullying female employees into tears, embarrassed one young secretary by dictating letters to her from his steam bath, interspersing his correspondence with commands to fetch towels and turn on the shower for him. When Edith Powell, art critic for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, had some mild reservations about the Soutines in a rare public exhibit of Barnes's paintings, he wrote her a thunderous letter stating that she could never be a true art critic until she had slept with the iceman...
...defeat on home soil was especially galling for Morse, because not a single major Oregon Democrat supported him. All the big party wheels-Representatives Edith Green and Charles Porter, State Senator Monroe Sweetland, even Maurine Neuberger (who won the nomination to succeed her late husband, Richard E. Neuberger, in the Senate)-were in Kennedy's camp. And this, in the Morse code, was nothing less than high treason. In bitter terms ("a stab in the back," "betrayal of party trust"), he denounced his fellow Democrats, vowed to seek revenge. The wounds will not heal quickly, and Wayne Morse...
Astonished Teachers. More than ever, Wayne's students are after an education, not prestige or parties (only 5% belong to fraternities and sororities). They pack talks by such visitors as Dame Edith Sitwell and Poet Karl Shapiro, snap up tickets for the touring New York Metropolitan Opera, jam campus productions of Shakespeare and Chekhov. The athletic department (budget: $55,000) is overwhelmed if a football game draws 1,500 spectators. "They seem to think culture is part of their education, and not just something they should do," says one faculty member. "They're paying their way through college...
...Director Erich von Stroheim offended Mayer (by announcing flatly that "all women are whores"), the head of M-G-M clouted Von Stroheim right on his Teuton nose. At home, though, the studio slugger cut a different figure. Early one morning he fell on his knees in his daughter Edith's room and cried un controllably until she promised to let him take over the Hollywood Biltmore for the lavish wedding he wanted for her. "He grabbed her hands," says Crowther, "held them to his face, and started sobbing and weeping until her hands were soaked with tears...