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...agent of his undoing is Jean-Paul, a roguish Parisian chauffeur (Jack Lenoir) who sees that the screenwriter is too cubical to make a move toward the very available Hunnicutt character and who does the necessary maneuvering himself. He is a scampish servant of classical comedy, who cleverly manages his master's life without neglecting his own comfort. At the film's end, when the screenwriter threatens to violate the rules of worldliness by falling in love, Jean-Paul saves him from the folly of earnestness by bedding the lady himself. The writer does not take this kindness...
...begun to maneuver outside the Senate as well as in the cloakrooms. For one thing, he had acquired Carole Tyler as his secretary. Back home in Tennessee, she had won a "Miss Loudon County" award, and she was a natural beauty-pageant type -35-26-35. Daughter of a Lenoir City dry-cleaning plant operator, Carole arrived in Washington in 1959, three years later was Baker's private secretary and confidante. As the former she received $8,000 a year, as the latter a lot of laughs and good times. When Baker established her in the lavendercarpeted cooperative townhouse...
...American Baptist Convention (1,500,000) met for the second of their yearly discussions on the problems before reunion. The talks were unofficial, since neither convention is sponsoring them, but the participants believe that merger is inevitable. Says the Rev. Emory Trainham, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Lenoir, N.C., and vice chairman of the discussion group: "We're so sold on the fact that reunity is possible that we're not really concerned about how long it takes...
...Dispatch is at best middle-reading. In Virginia's 1958 school desegregation crisis, the Pilot was the only daily in Virginia to agree from the very beginning that the U.S. Supreme Court's integration orders must be obeyed. "We don't call ourselves liberals," says Editor Lenoir Chambers of the Virginian-Pilot. "We never preached the doctrine of integration." But as Chambers wrote in a 1959 editorial series that won him a Pulitzer Prize, "The mark of Virginia's political shame is that in this confusion it found no better method than abandoning public education entirely...
...Lenoir Chambers, editor, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot