Word: spinster
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...city Northern reporters and a few young civil rights workers-many of whom badly needed haircuts and a fresh change of clothes. The Justice Department lawyer was young (34), crew-cut Robert Owen. At the front of the room sat U.S. Commissioner Esther Carter, a middleaged, Mississippi-born spinster...
...Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott, 64, may have been mildly amused-at first. Running against him was a 51-year-old spinster named Genevieve Blatt, the state's secretary of internal affairs and a liberal Democrat addicted to flowery hats. She had won the Democratic Senate primary by a mere 491 votes. But Scott had some unlaujhing moments as he tried to hold on to his seat. A moderate Republican, he was slow to embrace Goldwater and never appeared on the same platform with him, but the Goldwater candidacy hounded him. The lead seesawed for hours, until...
...National Committee chairman (1948-49) with a gift for the quick quip, Scott was elected to the Senate in 1958 with an impressive upset victory over then Governor George Leader. This year his Democratic opposition is much less formidable: Scott is running against Genevieve Blatt, a 51 -year-old spinster whose trademark is an assortment of high-crowned, beflowered hats. Miss Blatt won by a mere 491 votes, out of more than 1,000,000 cast, in an April primary that left Pennsylvania's Democratic Party bitterly divided. Her nomination is still being contested in court...
...Broadway views the pits and perils of Manhattan as if through the prejudices of a spinster librarian in Humboldt, Kans. Last week's story was all about a bright-eyed girl from the Midwest (Tuesday Weld) who arrived in New York and within a week was eating kickapoo pills given her by a thug in El Morocco. Ironically enough, the series was created by the man who wrote Born Yesterday, Broadway Playwright-Director Garson Kanin. His hero, played by Craig Stevens, is a press-agent who calls Kilgallen before he calls the police. The show is nervously edited...
...spectacular succession of sight gags. The plot is taken from Maupassant's tale of a legacy and the absurd or appalling things three people do to get it; the wit is dry, fast, subtle. When an impotent man looks at an obelisk, he winces. When a sour old spinster finally drops dead, her happy-go-lucky brother sidles up to the death bed, leans forward with a glitter of maniacal triumph in his eyes and deftly distorts her customary sneer into a pretty little smile. At his best, Alventosa is a master mechanic of comedy, an intellectual Keaton...