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Vivien Kellems, Connecticut cable-grip manufacturess, would-be striker against Federal income taxes (TIME, Jan. 31) wrote to Buenos Aires' Count Frederick von Zedlitz in 1943 (according to Washington's solemn-faced Democratic Representative John Main Coffee), addressed him as "My Darling Boy," told him she had been promised a high place in international affairs by an astrologer. Added she: ". . . how could that be if I am not married to you?" Revealing a few additional morsels of her billets-doux to the House, Coffee remarked: ". . . the rules of etiquette and the spirit of fair play prevent me from...
...livid with rage. The House postponed debate on the message, but off the floor 80-year-old Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the Ways & Means Committee was already spluttering his indignation at the message which "questioned our integrity or intelligence, or both." Alben Barkley kept a tight grip on himself and held his peace. After adjournment at 2:15 p.m., he went to his office and began to think. At his modest apartment on Connecticut Avenue he had a light dinner (he has not been feeling well of late), and kept on thinking...
Vivien Kellems, Westport, Conn, cable-grip manufacturer, in a speech to a Kansas City civic group, invited manufacturers to a "Westport tea party" - to form postwar reserves for their industries by putting aside money from their Federal income taxes. "Put on your Indian paint and feathers and join me," cried the 48-year-old, youthful, minister's daughter. "I owe it to my country ... to help rectify this horrible mistake which will most certainly carry us right into the abyss of Communism." Cited as U.S. industry's leading lady (by the National Association of Manufacturers...
Pressure Within. Fright is not enough to break the German hold on Bulgaria. If anything, the Germans have recently tightened their grip. But, unable to throw out the Nazis immediately, Bulgarians can and do look around for a future exit from...
...Arnold made no promises, but it was plain that, even though he kept a tight grip on his irrepressible optimism, he did not think the end, already begun, was in any doubt...