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Lady Bird's fervor and her whole program may seem a little corny, but they have touched a genuine national concern. Into the small White House office that she has set up to handle the beautification drive come up to 400 letters a week and countless phone calls. Last...
Tumors & Goof balls. Whitman's bloody stand profoundly shocked a nation not yet recovered from the Chicago nurses' murders. One effect was to prompt a re-examination of U.S. arms laws and methods of handling suspected psychotics (see boxes). There was a spate of ideas, some hasty and ill conceived...
Not much escaped the memento seekers when Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House closed down last April. Opera buffs pried off seat numbers, and ripped down damask wall coverings. Not to be outdone, RCA Victor carted away (after paying $10,000) the gold brocade curtain and announced that it...
This is Cash Bentley's race against time, and he "ran it alone, but it was extraordinary to see this man of forty surmount so many obstacles so gracefully." At one party, he fails to clear a chest and slams to the floor, breaking his leg. He recovers, a...
While Malraux sweltered, awaiting a hearing on his appeal, Clara hurried back to Paris where she got a petition from impressionable intellectuals urging the French colonial government to spare him. The signatures included André Gide, François Mauriac, André Maurois, Louis Aragon, André Breton and old...