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...things that make Montalban convincing in the role of a detective is that he is so often wrong. He tags the wrong man as the murderer from the start, and is only through the persistence of Harvard's "Professor McAdoo" that Justice triumphs. The Professor is played by a movie actor named Bruce Bennett, who, believe it or not, looks and talks like any number of youngish local scholars...
...last White House wedding: the late Harry Hopkins and Mrs. Louise Macy on July 30, 1942. No President's daughter has been married there since 1914, when Eleanor Randolph Wilson married William Gibbs McAdoo...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, the wise and witty U.S. correspondent of the London Times, was waiting for a spent and deadlocked Democratic convention to make up its mind between McAdoo and Smith. To a fellow newsman he remarked: "I've been around here so long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...
Died. Ellen McAdoo de Onate Hinshaw, 31, telephone-operator granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the late Senator William Gibbs McAdoo; by her own hand (she swallowed an overdose of sleeping tablets, then phoned a friend: "Well, I've done it"); in Santa Monica, Calif...
...administrative abilities that he had, and the support of all liberals, were not enough -the Great Engineer was elected. But now Smith had the fever. He became convinced that next time he would make it. When his old friend Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 nomination by the famed McAdoo-Garner-Hearst deal, Al Smith felt betrayed...