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Comedian & Playwright. With both an actress and an American among her recent predecessors, Princess-elect Kelly should have no difficulties with her royal in-laws in a country that is not much larger than the M-G-M lot. The Kelly family tree is, in its way, quite as colorful as Rainier's line. Jack Kelly is the son of a County Mayo farmer who emigrated to Philadelphia and begat a large and boisterous family. Two of Jack's brothers became famous in the theater: Walter ("The Virginia Judge") was a celebrated vaudeville comedian and George (Craig...
...edge of the driveway near his Key West holiday quarters, a smiling Dwight Eisenhower greeted Brazil's smiling President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek with a brisk handshake. After posing for press photographs with his visitor, the President ushered him inside for a bacon-and-eggs breakfast, necessarily hurried because Kubitschek was due in Washington at 1 p.m. to address the U.S. Congress...
...Yeah, Go Ahead." With the campaign over, President-elect Eisenhower wasted no time in saying to Adams: "I have been thinking this over. You had better come down with me to the White House. You can be there at my right hand." In his rented home in Washington's Rock Creek Park, Adams nowadays arises even earlier than he did before the President's illness. His first morning home from Denver in November, he was up at 5:45. "I would think we were back logging again," said drowsy Rachel Adams. Her husband, already wide-awake, routed...
...voters' concern, blamed each other for what was going on in Algeria. None attacked the French record as bluntly as ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France. In 1947 France gave Algeria's 9,000,000 Moslems a sort of second-class citizenship by allowing them to elect the local legislature's Second College, which, in turn, sent 15 delegates to the French National Assembly. The Europeans in Algeria, who number only 1,200,000, also got 15 seats...
...responsible for electing Cambridge's last mayor, John J. Foley, also an independent. The new council will meet on Monday evening for another try at electing the mayor. Pill said that he expects the meeting will elect the mayor, but DeGuglialmo expressed doubt...