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...Answer. After his fitful, feverish life, Pound is not resting. He lives in his son-in-law's medieval castle in the Italian Alps, completed Canto No.111 last Christmas, and hopes to push the count to 120. Apart from romping with his grandchildren, he fires Menckenesque letters around the world, and his talk, as he once said, is still "like an explosion in an art museum." He is scarcely a hero, but as minister without portfolio of the arts he has served more gallantly than most, and he has never had any truck with "the almost-good...
...Nominee Kennedy: "Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of campaign oratory. We do not want leadership that sees only dark continents of despair in American life. We do not want leadership that recklessly exhausts the rightful heritage of our grandchildren. We are against leadership that seeks to center all government in Washington...
Unlike many people in his profession, George Abbott does not drink or smoke or talk about himself. He enjoys taking pretty girls out dancing and is especially expert at the cha-cha. Once widowed and once divorced, he has one talented daughter, Judith, and several grandchildren. He drives a new Cadillac and plays good golf for a beginner--he took it up this spring, leaving his tennis cronies looking for a fourth...
Chosen Issue. In part. Lodge's appeal derives from physical attributes. If Hollywood were casting Distinguished-Politician-as-Good-Guy, it could hardly find a likelier looking specimen than towering (6 ft. 2¼ in.), handsome Cabot Lodge. He is 58, has grey hair and eight grandchildren, but he still has a youthfully athletic air about him. His voice is throatily masculine, with a kind of standard, radio-announcer accent that shows only faint traces of Boston and Harvard...
...evening last week, the President was indeed just a spectator-at his first baseball game since the season's opener. With him were two of his four grandchildren: David, 12, and Barbara Anne, 11. Despite the lopsided score (Boston 11, Washington 3), the President stuck it out to the end of the ninth. "My grandchildren wouldn't let me leave," he explained...