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...Louis Untermeyer resorted to fisticuffs over some forgotten difference of literary opinion. For a quarter of a century, everyone who was not just an everyone dropped in. J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Brenda Frazier, Rocky Marciano, Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, George Jean Nathan, Mary Martin, Tommy Manville, James Farley, Tallulah Bankhead, a freshman Congressman named Jack Kennedy-all came to be swept past the velvet rope...
...less and less able to exercise command; control of Field Enterprises, Inc., passed into the hands of the three other trustees who direct the corporation that was set up in 1952 by Marshall Field III. They are George B. Young, a lawyer who is also corporation president; Edward I. Farley, who is senior vice president; and Howard Seitz, who has been legal counselor to the Field family for more than 20 years...
...economically ruinous population growth. Using federal funds, he established 14 "maternal welfare clinics." That August he returned to the U.S. for a visit-and found himself an issue in Franklin Roosevelt's presidential campaign, accused of being anti-Catholic. He soon got a call from Jim Farley, F.D.R.'s political general. "Gruening," growled Farley, "what in hell is going on in Puerto Rico? Whatever it is, stop it. It's hurting us in the campaign." Gruening hurried back to Puerto Rico and closed down the clinics...
...first problem has been dealt with in the debate. The Committee on General Education will now be chaired by Dean Ford. "That should work very well," Finley says. "He can be a combination of Jim Farley and Secretary Udall--Farley because he has the power and prestige, and Secretary Udall because he has the knowledge of our natural resources...
Johnson's method, says veteran Democrat Jim Farley, who managed two of F.D.R.'s campaigns but disapproved of the way his boss handled Congress, "has produced both the harmony and the result that already identify it as the soundest approach in a century and a half." Explains Farley: "He has already bestowed on the Congress the respect and consideration it has not received since Jefferson-and the Congress has fully responded in terms of the great respect it holds for the presidency. We shall have no paralyzing crises such as we experienced in the court fight...