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...Hubert allowed as how he had done some research on former Vice Presidents, and on their contributions to the office. He had found them, he said wryly, a most illustrious group. "Who can forget those storied Vice Presidents of the past?" he cried. "William A. Wheeler! Daniel D. Tomkins! Garret A. Hobart! and Henry Wilson!"* Thoroughly elated but also slightly troubled by his new position, Humphrey insisted to friends that "things will be just like they always have been between Muriel and me and our friends...
...about "wastin' yur time scribblin' stories" than the phone rings. Long distance. A famous publisher is plumb crazy about his book. He heads for Manhattan, meets a fetching editor (Suzanne Pleshette) whose first act of loyalty is to set him up in a $50-a-month garret with a skylight, a terrace, and a splendid view of the city's challenging spires. In movies like Youngblood Hawke, every office, flat and cellar bistro adroitly manages to look out on the skyline...
...second son of an English theatrical couple. His parents soon separated-his mother was forced off the stage by loss of her voice, and his father was often drunk and out of work. Chaplin remembers his mother bending over a sewing machine far into the night in their garret room, sewing the sweatshop blouses that earned her 1½ pence each. He and his older brother Sydney were in and out of London's grim schools for destitute children. Although Charlie first appeared on the stage at the age of five, his life began to improve only at eight...
...President with Adlai E. Stevenson as his vice-presidential running mate-and won!" "Which two-term Presidents kept the same Vice Presidents through both terms?" "Which Governor of what state belongs to a party other than the Democratic or Republican?" "Which four Presidents ran as Democratic Republicans?" "Who were Garret...
...unbearded writers, television is the modern garret. They starve there, but only spiritually. Young playwrights dip their fingers into its honey pots; then, if they have substantial spines, they retreat for desperate months of "margin time," writing their "own work" until money is needed again. After Dartmouth and a year at the Yale School of Drama, Gilroy made what he describes as "an all-out total assault on TV." He conquered. He has been all over the channels from Studio One to the Kraft Theater. With some movie work as well, he eventually had enough excess cash to take time...