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...girl friend left him to become Hulme's fiancée, Lewis tracked his rival down and grabbed Hulme by the throat. Hulme picked Lewis up bodily, marched out to Soho Square and hung Lewis upside down on an iron railing by his trouser cuffs. In a graphic, impromptu way, the episode symbolized what one neo-orthodox nonconformist had done to his generation...
...impromptu performance at the Ritz-Carlton was part of five week's preparation for this week's cover story on Loewe and his lyricist partner, Alan Jay Lerner. The process began when Grunwald and Show Business Writer John McPhee watched the new Lerner-Loewe show, Camelot, on its second night-in Toronto. Soon afterward, Researcher Joyce Haber was assigned to the story, spent 14 days in Toronto and Boston interviewing the mercurial Loewe and getting back-ground information from others in the cast (plus a miserable cold, perhaps inherited from Star Richard Burton). Once, while Researcher Haber...
Working principally in Ohio, the young lawyer visited more than 70 counties. She stopped overnight in little towns, stayed longer in the cities--but every-where she went she spoke in favor of enfranchising her sex. She organized informal meetings and frequently gave impromptu speeches on street corners...
Garbage. But the inexhaustible Khrushchev never ceased to bounce and joust. Night after night he partied with everyone from the Afghans to the Uruguayans, held high-pressure sales sessions with neutralist leaders, slipped into impromptu press conferences at the drop of a question. More and more, his responses rasped with irritation-as if he could not stand the quiet. To a reporter who asked why he felt that the U.N. had to have a threeman executive to achieve U.N. impartiality, he replied: "It is said God alone was able to combine three persons in one. But then...
Nixon himself looked suntanned and genial, and showed his extreme polish in impromptu speeches at the airport and en route to the Statler. His addresses to the local dinner and to the nation over closed-circuit TV were hard-hitting and effective; he seems to have refined most of the corn out of his talks, at least in Boston. In general, the impression was strong that the Republicans are not dead in Massachusetts...