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Civic Attraction. In San Francisco, Monteux's portly figure, dyed black hair and Gallic wit have long since become civic features. He lives with his excitable, rolypoly French wife in the oldfashioned, palatial Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill. The Monteux blue-serge suits and pearl stickpins are often seen in social salons...
OHIO: Richard A. Chenoweth, 17, of Akron; Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.; Robert T. Edmunds, 17, of Toledo; DeVilbiss High School, Toledo; David L. Giele, 17, of Dayton Fairmont High School, Dayton; Glenn S. Goodwin, 17, of Euclid; Euclid Central High School; Robert E. L. Rochelle, 17, of Cleveland Heights; Heights High School, Cleveland Heights; Donald T. Trautman, 18, of Cleveland; Western Reserve Academy, Hudson...
Said Marion Davies one day last week: "Gosh, I'm getting so fed up with Pop spending the whole time talking politics." It was politics that had brought William Randolph Hearst, 78, from San Simeon to San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel, whither he summoned his editors and publishers to discuss war policy. Springy of step, looking fitter than he had in years, the old publisher seemed to his admiring Hearstlings well nigh indestructible...
...homelier story of American politics. When West Virginia's overdressed, cadaverous Matthew Mansfield Neely quit the Senate to become Governor of the State last Jan. 12 at midnight, he exercised his new gubernatorial power to appoint as his successor his old friend Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of Fairmont State Teachers College. But Homer Adams Holt, who retired as Governor that same night, likewise claimed the right to make the appointment, naming his old friend Clarence Eugene Martin, ex-president of the American Bar Association...
...fire, knives, legalistic arguments were of no avail in the face of a bigger issue. Ex-Senator Matt Neely was a friend of the Administration, and last week the Administration could still dig up enough political debtors, scrape together enough votes to run the Senate. The president of Fairmont State Teachers College got his job by just two votes...