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...district, where no Tory candidate had come close since 1911, the lead seesawed for hours before the Liberal candidate finally slid in front by 562 votes. In the one Quebec riding where the Liberal majority was normal, it was a question whether the appeal of the party or the luster of the candidate's name drew the votes; the Liberal nominee was Jean-Paul St. Laurent, 43, second son of Canada's Quebec-born Prime Minister...
Last week, when The Chocolate Soldier went on the air, Designer du Pont was on hand with a Flit gun. If any dress or suit was too bright or shiny for the TV cameras, he was there to spray it with liquid wax to dull the luster. As TV's top costume designer, Du Pont knows that there is a limit to how brilliant a dressmaker should be. That limit is reached when viewers start looking at the clothes rather than at the people wearing them...
...barring some unforeseen change, one day this week 80-year-old Sir Winston Churchill will proffer his resignation to his young Queen. Thus, after 52 years in the House of Commons, 28 years a Minister, Sir Winston will take leave of the post to which he has added such luster. In his place his faithful lieutenant, Sir Anthony Eden, will be summoned to kiss the Queen's hands...
...Peter Marshall, Richard Todd is just about terrific. Unsparingly he lays on the hard glaze of the relentless public manner, but never so thick that the warmer luster of the man's heart fails to show through. He even succeeds in preaching considerable excerpts from five sermons-one of them lasts a full 8½ minutes-with such charm that the moviegoer hardly realizes he has just been subjected to the equivalent of a month of Sundays...
President Elkins is determined to add academic luster to Maryland's plant and prowess. A star quarterback at the University of Texas and a onetime Rhodes Scholar, he came to Maryland after five years as president of Texas Western College (2,900 students). Well aware of Curly Byrd's "enviable contributions," he has no intention of plowing under the football team, concedes realistically that to attain distinction, a university needs endowment, and good football teams stimulate endowment giving. But in putting the accent on "distinction," he plans "a strong academic program," library expansion, and increased discussion of controversial...