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Died. Roy Orchard Woodruff, 76, longtime (1913-15, 1921-52) Republican Congressman from Michigan who entered the House as a winner on Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose ticket, was a conservative shaper of G.O.P. policy during 14 years as chairman of the House Republican Conference; after long illness; in Washington...
...Peasant." Though Stalin loves to quiz his associates on Marx and party history, he distrusts intellectuals, says Author Svanidze. Speaking to one about his grape orchard in the Caucasus, Stalin said: "That orchard was watered with my sweat! You can't understand that, you intellectual anarchist! I'm a peasant by birth . . . and a gardener and wine grower on top of that. It's a race apart. It's the best race to run a country...
...favorite author is Jack London but, he admits, "I've never read much of London or anyone else." He has seen only one stage play in his life (The Male Animal). He is so innocent of the theater that he called one of his TV shows The Cherry Orchard and was flabbergasted to learn that a writer named Chekhov had beaten him to the title by almost half a century. For backgrounds, Buffalo-born Wilber draws heavily on his own experiences and on stories he has heard during his tours of duty on such papers as the old Buffalo...
Ever since the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd has been picking apples and refusing any public commitment either to Stevenson or Eisenhower. Last week, in a radio address, he came out of his political orchard. Said he: "I will not, and cannot, in good conscience endorse the National Democratic platform or the Stevenson-Sparkman ticket." But he did not, in so many words, ask anyone to vote for Eisenhower...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Wisteria Trees (adapted by Joshua Logan from Chekhov's Cherry Orchard), with Helen Hayes, Joseph Cotten...