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Adjournment was in the air and Congressmen were itching to get back home for some electioneering. Impatient and brisk as a commuter trying to make a train, the Senate bundled a lot of legislation into a drawer and pushed it out of sight. Republican Floor Leader Kenneth Wherry looked at...
Until Christmas? Just after midnight, Cain abruptly ended his speech and demanded a quorum call. His filibuster had lasted 12 hours and 8 minutes.* The sergeant-at-arms began routing out snoozing Senators and, when he could not find enough, was ordered to arrest a few-a temper-raising procedure...
No Tests. By last week, the U.S. had had 14 months to examine Charlie Brannan's machine and study its insides. The two major farmers' organizations, the 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation and the 820,000-member National Grange had taken one look and gone...
He also has a considerable flair for French cooking, which he bolstered this winter by a six-week course in cuisine given by Dione Lucas, of "Cordon Bleu" fame. In the field of dogs, he is known for his extraordinary poodle-clipping talent.
Sixteen years later the picture was reversed and Thompson was teaching Leonard Bernstein, Lucas Foss and others at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He went to run the Curtis after teaching at Wellesley and California, several trips to Europe on Guggenheim fellowships, and a two year tour of...