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...neighbors. Each was in a business that kept him away from home a lot, and each flew in his own private plane. In fact, as it turned out last week, the two men were really one: William Edward Cobb, 39, whose double life, as it became public last week, shook North Carolina's Republican Party and probably put an end to a budding political career...
...being unflappable. But ambitious young Tory backbenchers have long complained that he is not ruthless enough in cutting away political liabilities and making room on his Cabinet team for new faces. Harold Macmillan last week again proved that he can be both flappable and ruthless. In a move that shook Britain, he summarily fired seven members of his 21-man Cabinet and reshuffled twice as many portfolios. Inevitably, the press called him "Mac the Knife...
...Guard-charming, handsome and rich. Their stables are among the nation's best, and their Long Island estate would be one of the nation's showplaces if it were ever on show. But Ceezee's mother was a New York actress, and Ceezee herself once shook a leg as a show girl...
Without Clothes. Ceezee came by her high-spirited independence from her mother. Refusing to be intimidated by the Old Guard's instinctive distrust of a some time actress, Mrs. Pickman shook up Boston society by giving parties that stirred together Brahmins with Broadway, jazz musicians with longhairs such as Conductor Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony and Composer Igor Stravinsky. It would have been surprising if a pretty and independent girl like Ceezee had not set her sights beyond Back...
...jazz fan, I believe," grinned touring Bandleader Benny Goodman, as he shook hands with another guest at the U.S. Embassy's Fourth of July reception in Moscow. But Benny dug the wrong cat. Arching his back, Nikita Khrushchev replied: "No, I don't like Goodman music. I like good music." All jazz started off "boo-boo-boo-boo-boo," complained the Soviet Premier, setting it to his own clopping time by dancing a jig on the front lawn of Spaso House. Russian or American, it was all Chinese to him, and so was that other whatchamacallit, abstract...