Word: spills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maine. Lanky, moderately liberal Republican John Hathaway Reed, 39, is as typical a "Down East" product as the Cobbler potatoes he grows. He talks with a twang, was a first-rate harness racer until his wife made him quit after he had a bad spill; now he drives a collection of antique Packards. Reed entered the state senate in 1957, and as senate president succeeded automatically to the governorship on the death of Democrat Clinton Clauson. His ten-month first term was lacklustre; in his second he promises to improve state schools...
...Loewe's music, his emotional temperament has yielded some of the best popular tunes of his day (7 Could Have Danced All Night; On the Street Where You Live). They spill over the battlements of Camelot. His present score is as melodious as any he has done, from brightly lighted marches (Then You May Take Me to the Fair) to pastels of love (If Ever I Would Leave You) and the gules-and-argent portrait of Camelot itself...
...word must be said in favor of international tensions and the armaments race I believe that these two conditions are good for the U.S. We are not now about to go to sleep while they exist, and as long as Communism knows we are ready, willing and able to spill blood, American and other, to defend that freedom, it will not be lost to us and our children...
Much is made of Elizabeth Falk's Negro blood, and eventually it is an appeal to her concern for her people that induces her not to spill the beans about Poole. Yet the Negro issue is a straw man forcibly dragged into the plot; it does not belong. Another gratuitous element apparently was invented to give Betsy Blair something to do. In her role as Mrs. Poole, Betsy minces on stage, makes several totally inane and unconnected remarks to two office secretaries and the baffled Poole, and then exits--for good. As one mystified man behind me said after...
Died. Sara Delano ("Sally") Roosevelt, 13, daughter of F.D.R.'s only Republican son, Manhattan Investment Broker John; of an intracranial hemorrhage, after a horseback spill one day and a fall while hiking the next day at a girls' camp; near Utica...