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Maria Jackson is frail and wrinkly now, and at 80 a great-grandmother. She lives in the family homestead on the fringes of Portland's business section with a cook, a companion, a chauffeur, a Pekingese named Charlie...
...Homestead steelworkers' strike of 1892 inspired Father Was Killed by the Pinkerton Men. And Du Maurier's romantic novel sensation of 1894 brought forth...
...Broadway's latest attempt to revive vaudeville, and by far its best. It has its shortcomings, but at least it doesn't try, as previous shows have, to revive vaudeville by reviving decrepit vaudeville acts. Here & there it is cluttered with bric-a-brac from the old homestead; otherwise Priorities proves a cozy, informal meeting place for two generations of actors. Among the veterans is Lou Holtz, who, carrying the same old cane, cracking the same old jokes with the same old skill, acts as master of ceremonies-and Willie Howard with his long-suffering look, low-comedy...
Japanese Embassy and consular staffs in the U.S. have been corralled at the Homestead in Hot Springs, Va., the South's No. 2 watering place. But the Italian Embassy staff is still in Washington. It has not been moved because U.S. Embassy men are still in Rome...
American Dutchman. The most important Netherlander save Queen Wilhelmina, the man who got for his colonial homestead the time to prepare its defense, is more like an American than a Dutchman. Not only does he speak English, with an American accent, he plays golf and smokes Camels. He has a town house in Batavia and a country house not far away, where he and his charming Dutch wife often entertain visiting diplomats and journalists. Among their close friends are U.S. Consul General Walter A. Foote and his wife...