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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case, what was and remains important between the painter and the lady has never been obscure or obscured; she was his friend and patroness. In that sense, there was, indeed, love between them. How juvenile to believe that the existence of love is proved by the incidence...
...Zagri (TIME, July 27), but the quiet power play came from none other than A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany himself. Making a personal trip to Speaker Sam Rayburn's office last fortnight, cigar-chomping George Meany growled out the facts of life as he saw them. Labor, longtime friend of the Democrats, could not live with the bill as it was being written, he warned. "We can't live with the hot-cargo clause; we can't live with the organizational picketing amendment...
...smacking, butter-and-ego personality. When he was an infant, says Clemens, his finely tuned palate rejected sour bottles that adults figured were perfectly sweet. All through his years of playing the provinces, he claims to have cultivated his "sixth sense for gourmandise" (a French girl friend was his most valuable assistant). Not until he had been on the air for two years did Wilmenrod ever bother with anything as stultifying as a professional cooking course...
Earle Edgerton, who played a leading role in the HSTG's production of No Exit last summer, will star in the new production as Sheridan Whiteside, the superbly nasty "wit, critic, lecture, radio orator, and intimate friend of the great and near-great" who is marooned by a broken hip in the home of what appears to be an aggressively ordinary Ohio family. Mikel Lambert, a student at the Summer School, will play his romantically involved secretary, and Marguerite Tarrant, a student at the Yale School of Drama, will appear as a nymphomaniacally inclined actress...
Golden's friend Carl Sandburg, about whom he is writing a book, has called him the Jewish Will Rogers. He might be called the Jewish Edgar Guest, too, but at his best, the cigar-chewing editor does evoke the old Rogers twang. Golden on the U.S. Astronauts: "Having found the perfect man, it seems the last place they should send him is to the moon. They ought to shoot off the least qualified man, because we need the best man like we never needed him before...