Word: hartness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican convention. There was Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, who had led the Citizens for Taft group in Chicago; there was W. Kingsland Macy, Long Island Republican leader who had fallen victim to a slow, painful purge at the hands of Gov. Thomas E. Dewcy; and there was also Merwin K. Hart, head of Washington's most munificent lobby, the Committee for Constitutional Government. After cigars, the group took a straw poll and found that of the twenty-eight present, only three would vote for Gen. Eisenhower in November. The others agreed that their party had moved so far to the left...
...Moss Hart remembers that "she had, in a true sense, glamour. She had more of it than anyone else." Her range as an actress was extraordinary. She could be gay, sad, witty, tragic, funny, touching. She was as capable of fine subtlety as of noisy overemphasis. She was, according to Coward, "barely pretty," but she "appropriated beauty to herself . . . along with all the tricks and mannerisms that go with it." Possibly the narrowest view of her talents was held by Gertrude herself: "I am not what you would call a wonderful dancer, but I am light on my feet...
...women's final, all U.S., Defending Champion Maureen Connolly, still only 17, won her second title by outlasting Doris Hart, 6-3, 7-5. Onetime Wimbledon Champ Hart, who had already failed twice to win the U.S. title after reaching the final, won huge applause from the fans. Champion Connolly joined the exclusive company of Helen Wills, Alice Marble and Pauline Betz, the only other women to win both Wimbledon and U.S. crowns the same year...
...Florida's Doris Hart and Ohio's Shirley Fry, the National women's doubles title, by beating California's Louise Brough and Maureen Connolly, 10-8, 6-4; at Brookline...
...ripping girl wisely said no. Years after, when Hughie had found more than one ideal friend among his own sex, she asked him: "What would you have done if I'd said yes? . . ." "Oh," he answered airily, "I should have rearranged my life accordingly." "Certainly," says Hart-Davies, "a great deal of rearrangement would have been necessary...