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Paris and Helen took off together in a glorified canoe. Mark Antony and his Egyptian lady friend floated around in a perfumed barge. Louis XIV used a carriage, and Edward VII a train. Leander swam - and drowned. Today's expense-account philanderers pursue their sinful pleasures more securely...
...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* "The Priest and the Politician," a report on the duel between Louisiana Political Boss Leander Henry Perez and a Catholic priest who tried to integrate his parochial school...
...Love is not a stimulating emotion," proclaimed Dr. Morris Fishbein, 73, retired editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. "It's a weakening one. The victim sweats, his blood vessels dilate, he takes on a pale and sickly look." For every Leander ready to swim the Hellespont, "the record is filled with stories of coronaries and strokes brought on by exertion caused by too much emotion...
Canaletto to Cezanne. Other U.S. museums were also savoring their latest treasures, made all the more precious because the supply of old masters available is constantly dwindling. The Yale University Art Gallery has added Rubens' turbulent Hero and Leander, painted around 1606, when the artist was under 30. It is a painting of tragic fury with the kind of magnificent melodrama that was to appeal to the 16th century romantics...
...idea was far from new, but much of the U.S. press recorded every bellowing boast from the council's man-in-charge-of-the-tickets, brash George L. Singelmann, 46. a personal aide to excommunicated Segregationist Leander Perez...