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...discriminating term Modern Republican is gradually being abandoned in favor of a better one: Platform Republican. Rising in a nearly deserted Senate chamber last week, New York's Jacob Javits urged "my colleagues in my party not to abandon either the principles or the programs which have been proven by popular acceptance . . ." In Spokane. Attorney General Herbert Brownell defined the Modern Republican: "One who believes in and pressed for action on the 1956 Republican platform." Vice President Nixon reminded a Washington convention of the budget-whacking U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see BUSINESS) that "the budget is high...
...federal grand jury accused David Daniel Beck, a labor giant with a turnip torso, of , cheating on his income taxes. In Manhattan one of the hottest security cases in years was unfolding behind grand jury doors with the confession of Communist Spies Jack and Myra Soble and their accomplice, Jacob Albam. In Pennsylvania Bethlehem Steel Corp. lawyers worked and planned against the multimillion-dollar possibility that their proposed merger with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. might be adjudged a threat to a free economy. And in Tallahassee, Fla. a White Citizens' Council member spat disgustedly as he spoke...
...Caribbean Festival in Puerto Rico. From the festival (where he was a great hit in "a purple suit amid a riot of bougainvillaea and frangipani") he jumped to the U.S., spent a hungry year in Manhattan before he "qualified before the gods and goddesses of the dance" at Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., and landed a role in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. He promptly wooed a featured dancer in the show, Carmen de Lavallade ("I thought she was a snob, and I liked that; I like to go after them; I don't like them...
Marriage Revealed. Jed Harris (real name: Jacob Horowitz), 57, box-jawed, brilliant, longtime Broadway director-producer (The Front Page, Our Town, The Crucible); and Beatrice ("Bebe") Allen. 29, lynx-eyed ballet dancer; he for the third time, she for the second; on April 1, in Las Vegas...
...took Sculptor Epstein a full year to mold the statue in clay, another year for it to be cast in aluminum. Then, for 18 months, while restoration of the nave proceeded, the figure remained in a crate as Sir Jacob, now 76, fretted that he might never live to see it unveiled. Last week he put aside his plaster-spattered corduroy work clothes, put on a well-worn morning suit and black Homburg and left with his wife for the pre-Easter hallowing of the restored nave and the dedication of his Christ in Majesty...