Word: goddarde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loudon Wainwright. Goddard Chapel. Tufts U. 8, 10:30, March...
...week before the state convention, a group of Democratic leaders quietly assembled in the Phoenix office of former Governor Sam Goddard. Each of the major presidential candidates had an emissary present. The result of the meeting was a Lindsay-Muskie alliance favoring a change of the convention rules to eliminate fractions in the distribution of delegates. Under the new formula, the delegates would be apportioned on a base of 24, leaving the 25th delegate slot to Arizona Democratic State Chairman Herbert Ely, who professed himself for the present to be uncommitted...
...plan was unacceptable to McGovern backers, who argued that the reform rules should not be altered just to simplify the mathematics. Inevitably, news of the meeting leaked out. Goddard's sedate law office was quickly dubbed "the smoke-filled room...
Married to Movie Star Paulette Goddard, living in a stage-set estate on the shores of Lake Maggiore, turning out fiction that self-converted from the pages of women's magazines into box office scenarios, Remarque appeared to be a kind of cinematic fantasy himself. He was at least as handsome as his own leading men. For a time he had been a racing driver of sorts. He collected Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir and Degas. What more could a reader ask of a novelist? But behind the celebrity-author lay a more substantial personality...
What does Actress Paulette Goddard smell like? She informed Columnist Eugenia Sheppard that her late husband, Novelist Erich Maria Remarque, had told her, "You smell like pencil shavings...