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From his uproarious retirement in California, aging (76) Author Upton (The Jungle) Sinclair, long one of America's loudest social consciences, took an ad in New Republic magazine to thunder a special plea. Sinclair, a lifelong teetotaler, was trying to unearth "a publisher who believes in abstention." In a "terrible but rigidly truthful" book titled Enemy in the Mouth, Abstainer Sinclair had "told the tragic stories of 50 alcoholic writers." Their suicide rate was ten times the U.S. norm, their lives 15 years less than the average span. After mentioning four dead drunkards in his own family (including...
...Congratulations on your tribute to the "over 60s" of music [Feb. 28]. I was fortunate enough to be seated near the leader of the applause at the Wilhelm Backhaus concert: the 80-year-old Fritz Kreisler. He applauded first, loudest, and longest...
Alabama. On Montgomery's hilly Dexter Avenue, banners fluttered with the phrase "Y'all come.'' Theater marquees proclaimed: "Welcome Back, Jim." Alabama put on its longest (twelve miles) and loudest (126 bands) parade for the U.S.'s tallest (6 ft. 8 in.) governor: Big Jim Folsom, 46, making a comeback after one sorry term, a bastardy suit in 1948 (later dismissed) and other troubles. Once famed as "Kissin' Jim," a whisky-drinking merry widower, he remarried, paraded in an Oldsmobile convertible, with his pretty wife and six children (two by his first wife, four...
...American operate on the principle that "there is nothing more deadly boring than a group of people who have just social position and nothing else." In his syndicated column of elegant keyhole peeping and pub-crawling, Cassini is far from boring. He not only covers the fanciest parties and loudest brawls, but his columns also include such items as: "When the Jelke trial opens-the chi chi neighbors along 72nd Street will hear all about the $300-a-month apartment [call] girls operated there." In San Francisco, Chicago and many another city, charity is the springboard...
...Congress. The joint session interrupted Dwight Eisenhower 17 times with applause, but grew restless toward the end of his long address, reserved its loudest reaction (which awakened one U.S. Representative in the back row) for his recommendation that Congress "approve a long-overdue increase in the salaries of the members of Congress...