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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rawhide Justice. Herman was 13 when his father first began to feel his way around in politics. The family lived in little (pop. 1,904) McCrae, 168 miles southeast of Atlanta, where Mattie Talmadge operated a 1,000-acre farm while her husband practiced law and became gradually disgruntled at the rarity with which McCrae needed lawyers. As a country boy, Herman fished and swam in nearby Sugar Creek, hunted, drove the family's 15 cows to milking, cleaned the dirty kerosene-lamp chimneys ("I don't know anything more disgusting...
...came, music that sang of Technicolor landscapes and of love that was tender, contented, and safely married. Every song was almost without flaw, as in a languorous dream, rich and edgeless as whipped cream, and always giving a hint of something a little more respectable than a mere pop tune, as the massed strings soared to the discrete pulsation of a harp or a guitar. And sometimes the music actually was more respectable, as when it was an orchestral arrangement of an operatic aria. This was the music of Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, a swarthy Italian-turned-Briton who five years...
Last week, while India looked northward unhappily, Chinese and Nepalese negotiators in Katmandu toasted each other in orange soda pop and signed an eight-year treaty of trade and friendship drawn up in Peking. Under its terms the first Chinese Communist consulate will shortly open in Katmandu, and other Chinese "trade agencies" will be set up elsewhere on Nehru's side of the Himalayas. "Traders" in both Nepal and Tibet will enjoy diplomatic immunity, be free to transmit messages by wireless code and courier without police inspection...
...first visit to Spencer, Ind., his American mother's home town (pop. 2,394), Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan gave a ten-minute talk from the pulpit of the Methodist Church his late mother used to attend as a girl, but when the plate was passed, the man who holds Britain's purse strings had to float a modest loan to raise enough U.S. currency for a contribution...
...vote-hunting expedition across the land, Estes Kefauver and the reporters covering him were dined in Corvallis, Ore. (pop. 16,000) by local Democrats, who asked everyone to get up and introduce himself. One tired reporter arose and announced: "Peter Kumpa, Baltimore Sun, candidate for retirement." Like dozens of bleary-eyed colleagues, Reporter Kumpa, 30, was roughing it on the campaign trail. 1956 airborne style, and finding it rougher than ever...