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...Left-wing Commentators Frank Kingdon and Lisa Sergio (Mussolini's onetime...
From the pooling of resentments and initials came I.C.P.A. - Independent Citizens for Political Action. But the last two words, said westerners, had left a bad odor in voters' nostrils. So the 300 delegates reconsidered, settled on "Progressive Citizens of America," with Kingdon and Davidson as cochairmen. From Henry Wallace, who had yet to make a go of it as an independent, the amalgamated left got its keynote: "To prevent the Republican Congress and the laissez-faire big businessmen from leading us down the high road of boom, bust...
Married. Edith Kingdon Gould, 25, socialite, linguist (five), ex-child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), former lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, great granddaughter of the late railroad tycoon Jay Gould, and daughter of the late financier Kingdon Gould; and Guy Martin, 34, wartime Navy lieutenant; both for the first time; in Manhattan...
...Politically, they represent all shades from "extreme reactionary" (Fulton Lewis Jr.) to "liberal" (Frank Kingdon). "Changeable" in ideology: Scooper Drew Pearson. "Old-fashioned conservative" but "well qualified as an analyst": H. V. Kaltenborn...
Ensign Edith Kingdon Gould (see cut), sightly great-granddaughter of the late Robber Baron Jay Gould, stood at the head of her graduating class at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School in Northampton, Mass. Not a college graduate, the daughter of socialite Financier Kingdon Gould of Manhattan enlisted in the WAVES as an apprentice seaman in October 1942, worked her way through t he ranks to an officer-candidate appointment...