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...like to argue whether the book was better, The Last Hurrah is at Lehman Hall this weekend. Most people think that's the name of an overpriced steakhouse; actually it's the title of Edwin O'Connor's elegiac novel about an aging lrish pol. In the movie, Spencer Tracy plays the grand old mayor of a grand old New England city (guess which one) fighting for his political life. A must...
Ford's advisers are counting on Stuart Spencer, who recently signed on as the campaign's political director, to build up some steam. Spencer was largely responsible for putting together Reagan's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1966, and he plans to use similar techniques for Ford. To help develop ideas for the President's State of the Union message in January, which will amount to his campaign platform, Spencer has hired Market Opinion Research of Detroit to identify Ford's constituency and define the issues that appeal...
...sneakers. Picture courtesy of Mrs. Ellen Scholl, Sheboygan, Wisc. The clip was ten years old--1965. Anyway, poor James Whitmore, star of the early fifties sci-fi feature Them, the hero of a couple of short-lived series like The Law and Mr. Jones, and a dead ringer for Spencer Tracy, is now getting a lot of attention for his portrayal of Harry Truman in this new movie, created from a play which Gerald Ford and a lot of other people loved, the much-advertised and obvious product of the recent Time Magazine-reported craze about the straight-talking, poker...
...VIRGINIA SPENCER CARR 600 pages. Doubleday...
Alas, Virginia Spencer Carr is capable of ungainly paraphrase: "Carson quivered inside and yearned for acceptance." An associate professor of English at Columbus College in McCullers' birthplace, she spends the bare minimum of her 600 pages analyzing McCullers' texts. Instead, Author Carr vainly seeks to characterize the Creative Process: "She sank again into her pillows and gazed off with her great dark eyes into an imagined land called up at will...