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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House, courted no publicity. He was almost unknown outside Washington and western New York. But when he announced his retirement from politics last week, many of his colleagues in Congress bade him farewell with a one word eulogy: statesman. President Truman, ex-President Herbert Hoover, General Eisenhower, and many another national figure sent letters and telegrams of congratulation. General George Marshall flew to Rochester to pay tribute to him at a testimonial dinner...
...with white hair and bloodshot blue eyes. An omnivorous reader, he is also an overpowering talker with a Walt Whitman-like flood of words (studded with four-letter ones) and a sincere belief that the successful operation of the paper is a public trust. He is purposely unknown to most Milwaukeeans. He declines most social invitations, has few friends, fearing that outsiders might try to influence the paper. He is also an enigma to most of his staff, which has long been baffled by the fact that he can, by turn, be boastful, humble, hard as nails and sob-sister...
...local screen. It is a pleasure to report that the celluloid facsimile, of the box does not seem empty, nor does Mr. Montalban look nearly as silly carrying it. He is, in fact, quite believable in the role of police lieutenant Morales of Barnstable, a detective looking for an unknown murderer...
Having dutifully settled for Walter Lynch, the convention nominated Senator Herbert Lehman, 72, a four-time governor, for another term in the Senate. He was the ticket's only familiar name and its only conceivable hope for drawing votes to unknown Mr. Lynch...
Admirers of Vincent Van Gogh got a tantalizing glimpse this week of an all-but-unknown painting by the great Dutchman. New York Herald Tribune Art Critic Emily Genauer, who lives in Croton, N.Y., had run across it one evening in the living room of a neighbor. The neighbor insisted on anonymity, but agreed to let Critic Genauer print a black & white reproduction in her Sunday column...