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Although Dodd has unsuccessfully introduced the bill for the past ten years, talk of tax reform in Congress has brought at least 20 similar bills into the Senate hopper this session. A few dozen bill calling for tax exemption or tax deductions on educational expenses have been introduced into the House...
Sens. William J. Fulbright (D-Ark.) and Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) have introduced exemption bills previously, and both have bills in the hopper this year. They see exemptions as only one part of a general Federal aid program for education. Spokesmen for the senators stressed that grant and loan programs are essential...
...other, "every chin in the place dropped. Hasty telephone calls brought in a mob of patrons. Nobody moved until we left arm in arm two hours later." After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella ("Lollipop") Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper...
...self-congratulation about her book than there was about Lolly's ("It's a terrible book," said Lolly candidly of her own, "I wrote every word of it"), it is perhaps because it was written with the help of an assistant named James Brough. Hopper-Brough briefly sketch in Hedda's early life-born Elda Furry in Hollidaysburg, Pa., marriage to and divorce from elderly Musical Comedy Star DeWolf Hopper, a so-so career in films, and finally a column in 1938-and then turn to the kind of keyhole chitchat about "mad, gay, heartbreaking" Hollywood that...
...Hopper story starts with a call from her downtown (Hollywood) office: "Elizabeth, this is Hedda. Level with me, because I shall find out anyhow. What's this Eddie Fisher business all about? You're being blamed for taking Eddie away from Debbie. What have you got to say?" In that particular case, recalls Hedda, "Elizabeth's voice was as innocent as a schoolgirl's: 'It's a lot of bull.'" But later, Elizabeth was taking a non-bullish, un-schoolgirlish sort of line: "What do you expect me to do? Sleep alone...