Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elsie Rockefeller, great-granddaughter of old John D.'s brother William (she later married a man who helped out on Bill's 1954 campaign). Last December he married Mrs. Ellen Sawall. 32, a pert, Virginia-born Phi Beta Kappa (University of Richmond) with two children, whom he met while she was financial secretary of the state Democratic Party. His political philosophy: down the line with his personal friend Adlai Stevenson, but beyond Stevenson in espousal of federal aid for farmers, "the one out of seven Americans who are the forgotten men in our economy...
...picket line that he met Josephine Poszywak. She was a striking laundry worker, and he was an interested Teamster; they were married in 1936, have a son, James Phillip, 16, and a daughter, Barbara Ann, 19. Jimmy doesn't expect Josephine to do picket-line duty now. When he took the stand before the McClellan committee, he said: "I asked my wife not to watch it [on TV]. It would just upset her. What's the use of her watching things she doesn't understand...
...furlough to serve as aide to his father during the Allied drive across France. After the war, traveling with Ike, John watched parades in Moscow with Stalin, danced with Princess Margaret at Balmoral Castle. Promoted to captain in 1946, he commanded U.S. garrison troops in Austria, in Vienna met, wined and dined and soon married (1947) Barbara Jean Thompson, slim, calm, brunette daughter of an Army colonel...
...Pound to Il Tempo, "I laughed when the government called Grandpa Ez crazy. But now St. Elizabeths to me is worse than prison. I'm like the Man in the Iron Mask. My mask imprisons my thoughts and smothers my voice." Pooh-poohing the treason charges: "I only met old Muss once, and our conversation pleased neither him nor me. I talked [over the radio] about Roosevelt's follies, but I never said anything against my conscience as an American." On the world mess: "What the politicians have given us is an atrocious lump of sugar...
...Broadway Hand Helen Hayes, her hair dyed white for her role in the Jean Anouilh play, Time Remembered, headed north from Mexico City, was met in Los Angeles by something only a mother could love: her 19-year-old son, Cinemactor James MacArthur, and his hair-razed redskin haircut, done for his role in the tomtom drama, The Light in the Forest...