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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pain in Maine. With agonizing reluctance, Dwight Eisenhower agreed to let Adams go. But he could not bring himself to ask for the resignation himself. To Meade Alcorn, longtime Adams friend and a fellow Dartmouth graduate, went the unenviable assignment of telling Adams. "You've got to handle it," said Ike. "It's your job, the dirtiest I can give you." Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would...
...Hoffa's good friend Judge Joseph A. Gillis of Detroit's recorders court, received $100 a week for 13 weeks as "adviser" for a Teamster TV program, got an extra $6,200 for his re-election campaign. Later, the judge presided over Teamster extortion trials...
...Saragossa, Spain, saturnine Cinemactor George Sanders, 52, onetime husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said that he and Old Friend Benita Hume Colman, 51, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman, would be wed "in about six months." Acknowledged his intended: "I'm enchanted with the whole thing, but there is no hurry about...
Vacationing briefly in the Miami area, Vice President Richard Nixon squeezed in a movie (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and a song-filled lunch with local Kiwanians, unveiled a pair of trim if hairy limbs as he donned shorts for a round of golf with a friend, Miami Democrat C. G. ("Bebe") Rebozo...
VOICE: "Hard sell, soft sell, what shall it be? Hello, friend, this is Nathan Marsh Pusey, President of Harvard, with a reminder that American colleges will face difficult times in the years ahead. Help the college of your choice by contributing your dollars. American education and Harvard thanks...