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Admission of Guilt. With his ear-to-ear grin and coonskin cap routine, Estes Kefauver has often been dismissed by pundits as an excessively folksy light weight. But in his battle against "Tip" Taylor, the Keef showed bracing political courage. When Taylor called him a traitor to the South for voting for the 1957 and 1960 civil rights bills, Kefauver defended the bills on the steps of every courthouse where he could draw a crowd. "I shall continue to favor the expansion of the right to vote," he said in Memphis, Tennessee's most strongly segregationist city, "until every...
Holding a rolled newspaper in his right hand, flashing baby-blue eyes and a wolfish grin, he states his theme and takes off like a jazz musician on a flight of improvisation-or seeming improvisation. He does not tell jokes one by one, but carefully builds deceptively miscellaneous structures of jokes that are like verbal mobiles. He begins with the spine of a subject, then hooks thought onto thought; joke onto dangling joke, many of them totally unrelated to the main theme, till the whole structure spins but somehow balances. All the time he is building toward a final statement...
...cash. He dates beautiful women sporadically (Actresses Nancy Olsen, Haya Hayareet), has almost outgrown the starlet stage and has outlived a two-year romance with Actress Phyllis Kirk. Sometimes he prefers the company of carhops and waitresses ("Yes, I've worked that beat, too"). With an independent grin, he says: "I feel if you have enough of these healthy interests-watches, razors, automobiles-you will have no need for human relationships...
Coolly, Joyce addressed the ball, tapped it toward the cup-and saw it run wide. A quick grin burst across the blonde's broad face. "Oh, boy," she sighed, "that was agony!" By the slim margin of a single stroke-the dinky putt that Joyce Ziske missed-beaming, Carolina-born Betsy Rawls, 32, had won her fourth U.S. Women's Open, adding 1960 to her victories in 1951, 1953 and 1957. No woman golfer, not even the incomparable Babe Didrikson Zaharias,* had done that before...
While Lyndon Johnson was huddling with delegates at the Biltmore, Jack Kennedy came out of Lawrence's room with a wider-than-usual grin on his face. Whispered a Kennedy man with the same kind of grin: "We have it. That's the ball game...