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Whim of Iron. Porter's life story has another deficiency as a movie plot. His 1919 Paris marriage to a wealthy beauty, Linda Lee Thomas, has been placid, childless, fashionable-and free of both the romantic hubbub and the folksiness that Hollywood prefers in its patterned fictions. Intimates describe the Porters as "great, devoted friends." They live on the 41st floor of Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, and from time to time share the mirrored elegance of his California summer place in Brentwood (complete with a swimming pool that lights up at night), or her luxurious house in Williamstown...
...steelmen pinned their hopes mainly on Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart, whose special Senate subcommittee was just beginning to pry into the entire hubbub. Capehart said that the Supreme Court's decision in the cement case had thrown all of industry into confusion on prices. He thought the "only pricing practice which may be followed in any competitive industry where freight is a substantial item . . . with assurance of legality is an f.o.b. mill price. Any other pricing system may be found illegal...
...little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have our saint." Rumors continued to flash through the dark like scratched matches: Maria was dying, she felt neither burns nor pinpricks, she was dead...
...hubbub and pageantry of old party conventions was missing . . . The delegates were comfortable enough in the well-lighted, air-conditioned ballroom on the sixth floor. There were no perspiring delegates swinging state banners, but almost every delegate spoke about the 'state of the union' in his state...
High above all the hubbub, mildly amused by the whole affair, sat the first-place Boston Braves, who didn't need a new manager. At week's end, after winning four out of five, the Braves were eight games out front in the National League. Chuckled confident Manager Billy Southworth: "I'm a tough man to beat when I'm ahead. They're really going to have to go some to beat...