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Because the 1950 senatorial contest was decided by only 1,102 votes, splinter candidates Kellems and McLevy probably hold the balance of power in the Benton-Purtell race. Kellems, a manufacturer who has been waging a one-woman feud with an oblivious U.S. government, classes herself an Independent Republican and may attract some disgruntled Taftites. The Democrats are more worried about McLevy, however, than the regular Republicans are about Kellems. McLevy is not much of a Socialist, but he's an unbelievably strong party boss in his city of Bridgeport, where he has been mayor for more than ten years...
Star Turn. In Detroit, Mrs. Cecil Jewell won a divorce after testifying that her husband often came home from saloons at 4 a.m. and demanded that she put on a one-woman floor show, which lasted "until 9, or 10 o'clock in the morning, or until I got too tired to dance any more...
...One-Woman Company. Jarrell, 49, an old hand in the insurance business, thought credit policies were a good thing even in the '30s, when there was comparatively little credit buying, and the company had a hard time keeping afloat. When World War II came and installment buying started drying up, he had an even harder time. Jarrell and his staff went into the service and left the company in the hands of Carmine McNeill, secretary-treasurer and only employee. At war's end, Jarrell gathered around him a hustling staff of young ex-servicemen to cash...
...After her second son, John Eisenhower, was born, she never quite conquered a feeling of anxiety for him. But Mamie seemed a born soldier's wife. She hustled along through the years-to Camp Colt, Pa., Panama, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Washington, Paris, Manila -like other Army wives, a one-woman cheering section for her particular soldier...
...proficiency at billiards seemed to Matsuyama a sign of anything but a misspent youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako fearlessly forged on into a man's world. She became a lionized exhibition player, put on one-woman shows for homeland Japanese troops in World War II, switched to entertaining U.S. servicemen soon after...