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...written his political obituaries, New York City's Republican Mayoralty Candidate Louis Lefkowitz refused to play dead. Last week, with the Nov. 7 election against Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner drawing near, Lefkowitz tirelessly continued to stump the city's five boroughs, pleaded his case before doctors and flower merchants, garment makers and university professors...
...after another she might count her prayers exactly." In the 12th century, the prayer now known as the Hail Mary* came into general use, and the beads began to be associated with the Virgin and take on something like their present form. The rose is Mary's flower, and the beads took their present name from the Latin rosarius: a garland of roses...
...years old as a major trade, executive recruitment came into flower after World War II, when the diversion of bright young men into uniform during crucial career years left the nation with a shortage of experienced executives. Concentrating on men who command $20,000 a year and up, the recruiting firms opened up a vital new talent pool to expanding U.S. corporations. Says the vice president of one rapidly diversifying company that depends on recruiters: "We don't have time to train enough men. We need the mustard cutters...
...would create on retiring." And, above all, he has felicity and precision in his use of word and image: "Though her words were dead," he says of a social lioness, "the shape and colour of their sentiments were irreproachable, like those green hydrangeas of the last phase, less a flower than a semblance, which such ladies dote on, and arrange in bowls...
Married. William McCormick Blair Jr., 44, former law partner of Adlai Stevenson, now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Denmark; and Catherine ("Deeda") Gerlach, 29, a fellow Chicago socialite; he for the first time, she for the second; outside Copenhagen at Frederiksborg Castle, which was packed with the flower of U.S. Democracy, headed by the President's mother. Mrs. Joseph Kennedy...