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...income tax evasion, campaigned on the theme "President Kennedy needs Congressman Lane." He was outtalked and outworked by hustling Bradford Morse, a Republican who often votes like a Democrat. Kitchin ran up against popular Charles R. Jonas, who cultivates his constituents the year round with cookbooks, letters and palm squeezing. Lone Republican in North Carolina's delegation in the 87th Congress, Jonas will have company in the 88th: Republican James Broyhill ousted incumbent Democratic Congressman Hugh Alexander...
...Palm Beach...
Lounges & Lanais. The hotel facilities, even for Hollywood, are spectacular. The bean fields, carefully tilled and planted, have yielded a lush landscape valued at $1,000,000; paths lined with giant palm trees wind throughout the wooded 15½-acre site, and plants spill up and out across patios, creating private vales only 50 yards from public bars; lounges open onto lanais heavy with the smell of orange trees. The setting is comfortable enough for the local colony, for whom it is a kind of family club and also affords a perfect stage for starlets or would-be starlets...
...Colt revolvers. The company was assembled eight years ago under the name Penn-Texas Corp. by German-born Financier Leopold Silberstein, who hoped to make it the nucleus of a vast industrial empire. But in 1958 it was wrested from Silberstein's control by a corporate raider from Palm Beach named Alfons Landa. Landa used the company to seize control of Chicago's Fairbanks Morse, an old-line machinery manufacturer, then changed its name to Fairbanks Whitney...
...National Academy of Design that day in 1894, the U.S. flag flew at half-mast. The artist who had just died was called a "giant," and the academy spared itself nothing to give him a giant's funeral. The casket of silver and velvet was lost among palm leaves and flowers, a bust of the dead man stood on a pedestal, and the grand stairway was draped in black. All this was fitting for an age that loved a good show, but it could not have been more inappropriate for the most unobtrusive of painters, George Inness...