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...Helen Gahagan Douglas, onetime actress and San Francisco Opera Company diva before she became a three-term (1945-51) Democratic Representative from California, said she was returning to her first love, would give a Manhattan song recital at the end of the month...
...routine business meetings and a chance to tour the nearby golf course, swim in Friendship Lake below the administration building, play tennis and shuffleboard (or, like the auto workers' Walter Reuther, have a fling at square dancing on the shuffleboard court), and view the movie Helen of Troy in Dubinsky's $750,000 lakeside theater. Their every want was tended by Unity House's regular staff of 400, plus 50 extras brought in for the occasion...
...this is a book in which the preferred words are short, the shortest being "I." The principal "I" of the story is a lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him after a farming stint in the Congo. The poor girl, Helen, had been a dance-hall hostess in England. She had foolishly married one Henry Seaman, who at school looked like a "nasty cupid," bullied small boys and dropped white mice down the fronts of girls' dresses. By the time he marries Helen, Henry finds himself managing a vast cattle...
...there were 10,000 women gathered on the well-watered lawns. Gathering up all the petitions, a delegation led by a white woman, Miss Helen Joseph, proceeded to the Prime Minister's office. It was stopped at the main doors. "Whites only," said the uniformed doorman. "On whose authority?" demanded the militant Miss Joseph. "There are no apartheid notices posted." After ten minutes of harried consultation, an official said: "O.K. Five delegates only-black or white...
...Jersey's No.1 bachelor, Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 48, long an escort of Margaret Truman Daniel, now an uncommitted favorite-son suitor of the White House, had nonetheless switched to a willowy, blue-eyed Stevenson named Helen, 28, a distant relative of Adlai Stevenson. Though Meyner was mum as ever about romance, Helen said they have been "friends" ever since May, when the governor was keynoter of a mock Democratic Convention at Ohio's Oberlin College (prexy: Helen's . daddy, William Edwards Stevenson). Paralleling Helen's legitimate claim of kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back...