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Pleasures & Palaces. Ex-President Prío also did well for himself, apparently without the use of suitcases. When he was a student and budding politico, Prío said, "there wasn't a peseta in the house to go to the movies." By the time he was Senator, he was a millionaire, owning at least two houses and two country estates. While President, he quietly built one of the hemisphere's most fabulous mansions at La Chata, near Havana. The place has an air-conditioned barbershop, a zoo, a stable of Arabian horses and a swimming pool...
...Philadelphia, Bulletin (circ. 697,718) Columnist Earl Selby, 34, also played detective. A Republican politico, William F. Meade, was mysteriously shot recently in the lobby of a small Philadelphia hotel. To Democratic District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, the case was clear-cut. Meade was shot, said he, by Virginia Carroll, who was with Meade at the time, and with whom he had been "arguing and drinking." Meade insisted the shot came from outside the hotel. But Dilworth offered as evidence a bullet-shattered pane of glass which, he said, FBI tests proved "conclusively" had been broken from the inside...
Eisenhower's main task will be to help in translating popular sentiment into enthusiastic Ike delegates. Many a politico, impressed by the New Hampshire and Minnesota votes, is now wavering or moving reluctantly into the Eisenhower camp under popular pressure. If they can shake Ike's hand and exchange views with him, they will feel a lot better-and the Ike campaign will be protected against the possibility of a Taft-MacArthur drive in the convention hall...
...Harding Administration was in the Office of Alien Property. For accepting a $50,000 kickback on a World War I claim, OAP Custodian Thomas W. (for Woodnutt) Miller was sent to prison. OAP gradually went out of business, was revived in 1942 as a Justice Department division under Democratic Politico Leo Crowley. Since then it has controlled as much as $500 million worth of alien properties seized in World War II, still manages 39 active companies and assets of nearly $300 million...
...size-up. Summing up, in her woman's-magazine style, she wrote: "Not a woman's woman, with a warm remembrance of moments spent like any woman with her friends . . . not a man's woman either, even if she once may have been, [but a] woman politico ... a woman too fabled, too capable, too sexless, too driven, too overbearing, too slick, too sly, too diamond-decked, too revengeful, too ambitious-and far, far too underrated far, far too long by our world...