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...only person who seemed to developed a character was Hopper. Her Foible, was clearly , more a character out of , sighing and fidgeting and biting her lip. But she stole whatever scene she appeared...
...Hopper v. Everybody Sir: Miss Hopper did not wait until 1963 to write her life story as implied by your writer [May 29], but did so back in 1952 when From Under My Hat was first published. Her second volume, The Whole Truth and Nothing But, was written in 1962 but held up for five months by the publishers. As to the claim that Miss Graham has deposed Miss Hopper as "doyenne" of the Hollywood columnists, this seems to be refuted by the fact that the Hopper feature still has, I believe, the largest circulation of any in its field...
Today, Sheilah Graham has deposed Hopper and Parsons as doyenne of the Hollywood columnists. Miss Parsons is down to 69 papers, Miss Hopper to 100; the Graham column appears in 178. But the crown has lost much of its luster. In January, Miss Graham's column title was changed from Hollywood Today to Hollywood Everywhere in belated recognition of Hollywood's decline as the capital of filmland, or the capital of anything. Miss Graham herself stays away as much as she can. "I get bored with all the nonsense," she said the other...
While a senator, Lyndon Johnson favored still another form of assistance, and this may yet be considered. Johnson, in 1960, put a bill in the Senate hopper asking the Federal government to guarantee private loans taken to finance college costs. Similar to FHA loans in principle, this system would release more private funds for education without significant cost to the government...
While Republican leader Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-III.) is reportedly opposed, Republican opposition may not be unanimous. Conservatives, particularly Sens. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and Peter Dominick (R-Colo.), put similar, though more generous, bills in the hopper last session. These men have claimed tax credit is a "means for encouraging more effort at the private level" and therefore more healthy than direct Federal...