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Cinemactress Ava Gardner, who has been avoiding the public since her latest spat with husband Frank Sinatra (during which Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...
Social Security. At Miami, speaking against a background of waving palm trees, Stevenson conceded that "there are honest criticisms to be made after 20 years of Democratic administration," but in Miami and Tampa, he listed the aid the New Deal had given Florida, e.g., assistance to the Jackson Memorial hospital, reclamation of swamplands, development of frozen citrus concentrates. He promised expanded social security, and cited Alfred Landon's 1936 campaign speeches as evidence that the Republicans are against it. He also promised to see what he could do about "a longer, healthier life for our older citizens," quoting Browning...
...help ex-New York Timesman John Kieran edit its almanac, it picked a man from the rival Herald Tribune: City Editor Joe Herzberg. Manhattan-born Herzberg, who started on the Trib as an 18-year-old copy boy, never finished college. But he knows his city like the palm of his hand, and in his encyclopedic memory, say staffers, is "everything from baseball to Bach." Joe Herzberg once wrote in his own book, Late City Edition: "A modern newspaper is Thucydides sweating to make a deadline...
Hound's Tooth. Meanwhile, Eisenhower's campaign train was still in turmoil. Later on the day that Smith produced his details, Eisenhower himself talked with reporters on his campaign train about the Nixon case. Ike posed for pictures driving an angry fist into his palm. His conversation was not for quotation, but the papers soon blossomed out with stories that Ike would not run on the same ticket with Nixon unless Nixon came out of his trouble "clean as a hound's tooth."* The tabloid New York Mirror reflected the indirect statements in a more direct headline...
...Communion service, could stand some improvement. They recommended that the Biblical text generally called the "eleventh commandment" be added. It reads: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." *Explained the Rev. R. F. Palm er, one of the motion's sponsors: "We feel this change is necessary to give the commandments more punch. Because people's morals are not good enough today, there is a crying need for the revival of these commandments in everyday life...