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...What Helen Knowland did not know was that Author Kamp, a Westport, Conn. crackpot, is a longtime espouser of fascist causes, is well-versed in the techniques of antiSemitism, tried to undercut President Eisenhower's 1952 campaign by picturing prominent Jews who supported...
...Brown, demanded that Knowland disown responsibility for use of the tract, drew only the surprisingly lame comment: "I don't think I'm called upon to agree or disagree with every piece of material that comes to my attention." All but lost in the uproar was Helen Knowland's plea that she had never known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald B. Winrod, Gerald L.K. Smith et al. It was left to Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to make the political riposte. Said he. in reply...
...racket shows are slowly disappearing. They have run out of rubes, and they are about to run out of towns. "I just think show business is dying out," says Colonel Alter's wife Helen. "You can't get good freaks any more. Seems like they're all dying off." Lew agrees. "They take 'em and put 'em in an institution now," he moans. "They don't went 'em exposed. Now I ain't going to mention any names, but I know an insane asylum where there's three good pinheads right...
...worth two finesses, he carelessly held his hand within easy view of roving eyes. He actually treated kibitzers as humans ("I might as well love them. I'm married to them"), and he went out of his way to describe his partner, a perky strawberry blonde named Helen Sobel, as one of the world's greatest bridge players-which she is. As the tournament neared its end, with tensions and tempers rising, he occasionally took advantage of being dummy to rest his eyes, almost as if snoozing. He was obviously out of his element...
...when the final point-standing was tabulated, Charles Henry Goren, 57, brilliantly aided and abetted by Helen Sobel, had again won one of bridge's most coveted titles. And last week, reflecting on that victory, he finally permitted himself to show the hard competitive instinct that lies close beneath his amiable surface. "I gave my rivals a good swift kick in the stomach," said Charles Goren, "and they hated...