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...other protagonist was articulate, patrician John V. Lindsay, 44, a WASP product of the Ivy League and the winner of four terms as Congressman from Manhattan's 17th ("Silk Stocking") District, who took over as the city's first Republican mayor in 20 years the week the strike began. Quill's unconcealed enmity toward Lindsay was partially a product of their sharply different backgrounds, but it stemmed largely from the new mayor's unmistakable determination to bring a semblance of order and responsibility into the city's labor relations-a determination that Quill...
Rich beyond most writers' dreams, Maugham became a kind of semipublic personage, a figure of Edwardian origin and habits, projecting an Ed wardian image on modern scenes. He looked like a character from one of his own novels: heavily lined patrician features, thin lips turned down at the corners, hooded eyes. Traveling the world in search of stories, he napped after lunch wherever he happened to be-aboard a tramp ship plowing the South Seas, in a Burmese hut or an outrigger canoe. Churchill, Wells, Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Kings of Sweden and Siam called...
...ever had a colored girl?" Joe answers no to both questions. What he's got is a shaky executive job at his father-in-law's wool factory in Yorkshire. His luxurious home is in his wife's name, he drives a company car, and his patrician business associates are forever snubbing...
...Moore got Crump's sentence commuted to 199 years. Still in debt, he has switched to lawyering for the Justice Department's Criminal Division in Washington. Says he: "I feel lucky, going broke on the things I did." - Chicago's Walter Fisher, 73, a patrician partner in a patrician law firm, was asked by the Supreme Court in 1956 to represent Illinois Indigent Alphonse Bartkus in a classic double-jeopardy case. Charged with bank robbery, Bartkus had been acquitted in a federal court-then convicted of the same crime in a state court. Fisher soon produced...
...Call Me Madam Secretary." During the following twelve years-the era of New Deal reform, unprecedented labor strife and the huge demands of World War II-the tricorn hat, the patrician Boston accent and the impassioned air of the social worker became a signal for battle to opponents of the Secretary of Labor. John L. Lewis, caustic head of the United Mine Workers, called her "woozy in the head," adding that although she would make an excellent housekeeper she didn't know as much about economics "as a Hottentot does about moral...