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Nine in the Hopper. The week's real action took place a few blocks away in a ballroom of the Americana Hotel, where the ruling 234-member House of Delegates met to thrash out the medicare dispute. The mood there, in the words of Former A.M.A. President Edward R. Annis, was one of "contained frustration...
...were against medicare. The official position was that Government financing of health care for the aged will bring Government control, and with this will come deterioration in the quality of care. Therefore A.M.A. must oppose it. But how? No fewer than nine resolutions were in the hopper when the delegates convened, all urging that doctors boycott medicare if the Administration's bill is enacted...
...Homage, Soyer was constantly worried that he might fail. He jotted in his progress notes: "Will I be able to capture the tremor in the temples of Jack Levine's portrait, the anxious face of Moses [Soyer's twin brother], or the aura of aloneness about Edward Hopper?" In the end, he largely succeeded, but says Soyer: "The secret of doing big group paintings has been lost. Portraits painted today are fragmentary, personal, capricious, nervous, tentative, incomplete, accidental, at times full of inaccuracies. But they are fascinating-revealing of the artist more than of the subject he paints...
...traditional toys, trees and reindeer, avoided writer's cramp by having their signatures engraved within. Playwright Edward Albee, who selected a 16th century woodcut, signed his cards by hand, as did New York Herald Tribune Publisher John H. Whitney, Newsman Chet Huntley and Actress Joan Crawford. Hedda Hopper was even more personal about it all, sent cards bearing her own portrait. Mother Jolie Gabor sent photographs of herself and her daughters, included a lengthy message: "Come and have a glass of champagne with me at my fabulous pearl salon . . . my charming girls will be more than happy to give...
...Fred") Frederics, 58, Manhattan milliner who teamed with John ("Mr. John") Harburger in 1929 to become the U.S.'s maddest hatters, charging up to $1,000 for their "creations," in 1949 went off on his own to make pyramids and be-flowered cartwheels for such as Hedda Hopper (she has some 75) and Gloria Swanson, not to mention the slouch-brimmed felt behind which Garbo is forever hiding; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...