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...Headsman." Meanwhile, Stevenson's paternal grandfather was busy campaigning against Lincoln. Grandfather Adlai Ewing Stevenson, who walked into Illinois beside a wagon in 1852, was also a lawyer, but an avid Democrat. As Grover Cleveland's First Assistant Postmaster General, he became known as "the headsman" when he swept some 40,000 Republican postmasters off the payroll. In Cleveland's second term, he was Vice President. Lewis Green Stevenson, his son, was Illinois' secretary of state in 1914-16. (Another relative in politics: Vice President Alben Barkley, whose grandmother was Grandfather Adlai's first cousin...
Dave and Andy's first investment after the wedding was a Chevrolet station wagon, and they have put it to good use, gadding about Europe. But they do not intend to spend their lives gallivanting around the ski world. Not that they intend to give up the fun of skiing. Says Andy: "We'd like to find a business where we are our own bosses. We're both pretty independent-minded. Maybe something like ranching or farming. Anyway, we'll settle close to good skiing...
...came to the U.S. to plead his cause, mercurial Mossadegh was so ready with quips, anecdotes and laughter that Secretary Acheson thought the visitor should be reminded of the gravity of the situation. At a Blair House luncheon where Mossadegh was guest of honor, Acheson told a story: a wagon train, crossing the American West, was attacked by Indians. A rescue party found the wagons burned, and the corpses of the pioneers lying around them. The only man still alive lay under a wagon, with an arrow through his back. "Does it hurt?" he was asked. The dying man whispered...
...women, recruited to marry the lovelorn settlers of a California valley. Rancher John McIntire signs up the prospective wives for his men, lets them pick their mates from a bulletin board full of daguerreotypes. Then hard-bitten Scout Robert Taylor rides herd on the ladies on the dangerous wagon-trail to the West...
...Paint Your Wagon suffers less from a shortage of women than from a shortage of wit, from imagining that copious research is a substitute for bright conversation. This defect is an unfortunate handicap for a show that is otherwise a pleasant enough addition to the Broadway scene...