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Before Mort Weaver's death, Ella was his steady girl; afterward she began to date Robert, and in 1935 they were married. Ella is still frequently mistaken for a Caucasian and seldom volunteers a correction. "I don't say, 'Hello, I'm a Negro,' just as you wouldn't say, 'Good morning, I'm a Catholic' or whatever you are," she says. The Weavers have no children; an adopted son died three years ago in a game of Russian roulette...
According to popular Washington legend, James MacGregor Burns has seldom found it necessary to visit the capital in order to write his gooks about the national government. Many historians say his history is so weak that he must be a political scientist, while the political scientists say that his political science is so weak that he must be an historian. None of Burns's many critics will be disappointed with the fodder he has provided them in his latest view from Williamstown, Presidential Government...
...Golf, No Fishing. Throughout his long lifetime, Alfred Sloan was certainly the exemplar of his own advice. His total dedication was to General Motors. He never smoked, seldom drank, disliked partygoing, scoffed at golf and fishing as wastes of time, rarely read anything other than corporate reports. He and his wife, Irene Jackson Sloan, had no children, lived quietly in their apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The Sloans gave to charities with magnificent openhandedness; their philanthropy over the years has been estimated at more than $300 million, including $18 million to M.I.T. and $31 million to the Memorial...
Chase has very few dull moments, nor does it lack the courage to cash in on its convictions, most of which are half-truths deftly rigged to attract liberal non-thinkers. Miss Hellman seldom lets a scene end without tacking on her comment; except for a handful of courageous, long-suffering Negroes and Sheriff Brando, no Texan escapes being singed by a Statement. Brando ably plays the stereotyped champion of human rights that he seems compelled to endorse in film after film, changing only his dialect. Bloody, brutally beaten by local louts, he makes a final, desperate attack against prejudice...
...most of the jackets Kleist saves go into his personal collection. When the Harvard collection began, Kleist realized that many of the finest jackets were created not by famous artists, but by professional jacket-designers, who seldom achieved recognition outside their specialty. So he started a personal collection to preserve jackets which pleased his esthetic sensibility for graphic, calligraphic, and pictorial...