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...earlier, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, 38. reappeared on the Capitol steps in Washington. At last relieved of the effects of an old World War II naval battle injury by a spinal operation last October, Jack Kennedy looked tan and hardy after five months of Florida sun shine and home care from his pretty wife Jacqueline. Nor was his convalescence wasted time : he had written a book about memorable moments in the Senate's his tory, had kept up with its current meanderings by daily browsings through the windy Congressional Record. Chuckled he: "It was an inspiring...
...call from the draft board break the spell but weld the couple in marriage and newfound maturity. Next of kin in mood, manner and appeal to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, The Young Lovers uses a breezy class-of-'55 lingo to shine up the ancient story of boy-mates-girl. Author Halevy, a 35-year-old New Yorker, scores his first-novel romance with a bustling big-city sound track. Subway doors snap shut like guillotines, shreds of dirty newspapers swirl along the avenues instead of autumn leaves, a joyless Village party gets...
...gawked to get a good look at the handsome, well-tailored Prime Minister of Great Britain, up there on the crude wooden platform. It began to drizzle. Eden patted his grey hair. "My word, it's rain. Well, never mind, I'm sure the sun will shine again." There were chuckles from the crowd. "The cost of living has gone up much less under us than under the Socialists . . ." Eden went on. "But the most important thing is peace. Peace...
...effort, has led to syrupy organ music, sweet-voiced heroes and heroines and gravelly-voiced villains, which put most religious programs on the level of moralistic soap operas . . . the casual listener is revolted by . . . sepulchral voices drumming out reworded platitudes (most of which are slowly but surely wearing the shine off the Golden Rule...
Died. Tom Howard. 69, veteran vaudeville and stage comedian (The Gang's All Here, Rain or Shine), most recently the writer and thick-witted quizmaster of radio's It Pays to Be Ignorant; of a heart ailment; in Long Branch...