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...tot up more than 90 million ballots, some of which were still trickling in from the hills by muleback, would take India's election committees at least two weeks. But already Jawaharlal Nehru's Congress Party was clearly on its way to a landslide victory. In his own constituency near Allahabad, Nehru ran nearly 200,000 votes ahead of his opponent, an anti-cow-slaughter candidate whose program the pandit dismissed with the brief comment: "I like horses as much as cows...
...Liberace, inseparable brother of schmalz Pianist Wladzui Valentino Liberace, strolled through the Chicago night, two thugs pulled up alongside in a maroon convertible, hopped out and accosted him. One growled: "Give us everything you have!" George politely declined, was slugged with a pistol, soon roused from a fog to tot up his losses: $50 in cash, a $1,500 onyx and diamond ring, a $25,000 fiddle (the violin was located, along with two prime suspects, at week...
...eavesdropping." Charles's mother would pack him and his younger brother John, now 28 and an instructor in American civilization at Brandeis University, off to bed. But Charlie never stood in awe of the guests. "They were like a bunch of uncles to him," says Fadiman. As a tot, Charlie played with Philosopher Adler at a highbrow game of "neologizing" (inventing words in sentences to sound like a foreign language). As a youth, he played word games with Cornwall Neighbor James Thurber, who was so taken with Van Doren's acting skill ten years ago as the lead...
...Records! Records!" yells the six-year-old with a gleeful face, dragging his mother toward the rack of colored "envelopes in the supermarket. Mother escapes to the grocery department, leaving her son to make his choice. She is barely out of sight when the tot spots a picture of a locomotive on one of the jackets and shrieks. "Ma! Ma! I'm ready!" She returns and exasperatedly says: "You've already got a choo-choo record." Then she scans the rack, and a nostalgic smile crosses her face as she picks up Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...
...Manhattan, with Ringling Bros, circus going on without him just across the street, famed Clown Emmett Kelly, 57, involuntarily played hooky, spent his time entertaining only one kiddy, his own Stasia, a nve-month-old big-top tot. It was the first opening Kelly had missed in his 14 years with the circus. Reason: the American Guild of Variety Artists, wrangling with Ringling Bros, over a welfare fund for circus performers, ordered Guildman Kelly to stay away...