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...primary, and if he wins will be a lackluster running mate for U.S. Senator John Bricker. Last week ten-term Congressman John Martin Vorys, 61, added to party woes by turning down an eleventh nomination to return to his Columbus law practice, left the G.O.P. only five months to groom a nominee. ¶Stevenson-for-President Democrats who sadly buried Adlai in 1956 are happily resurrecting him for 1960 and glancing nervously at hurdles in his path toward a third nomination. Most immediate hurdles: 1) prejudice against a two-time loser; 2) Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who has been...
Under the law, which takes effect July 1, a couple marrying in Mississippi must wait three days for their license; pass blood tests, prove that the bride is at least 15 and the groom 17. Minors need parental consent; circuit clerks will routinely notify the parents by registered mail during the three-day waiting period. Circuit judges may waive the routine only for grievous reason, e.g., pregnancy...
...which the spear tosser twirls like a discus thrower and has little control over direction), and they decided that, by next August, Olympic Hurdler Lee Calhoun will be an amateur once more. Calhoun's professional transgression: he was married on TV's gift-happy Bride and Groom show...
...landscapes, Thomas Gainsborough borrowed the techniques of Rubens, but filled his canvases not with figures from Olympian allegory but the workaday life of English villages, to create a kind of Arcadia with a British accent. George Stubbs, Britain's finest horse painter, turned out landscapes populated with jockeys, grooms, owners and thoroughbred racers that not even hard-riding country squires found it possible to fault. One of Stubbs's best, Gimcrack with a Groom, shows Lord Bolingbroke's small, dark grey champion (27 firsts in 35 starts) being groomed (at left) and winning over the Newmarket course...
...Bride and Groom had a "big surprise" for the groom last week, and he coyly let the audience in on it: he had corralled the bridegroom's best friend for a "completely unexpected appearance" and was hiding him behind a screen offstage...