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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: Greying, slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.), he is shy, quiet, retiring. A nonsmoker and nondrinker, he likes to raise vegetables, walk Civil War battlefields, and take pictures with a prewar Kodak Bantam special ("Best camera Eastman ever made"). His soft Georgia voice takes on a rare commanding ring when he mentions the liberal social policies he has been writing about, arguing for, and putting to work for more than a quarter of a century. He constantly seeks a practical, private-enterprise solution to social problems, e.g., when he found in 1953 that federal employees had no group...
...reared back and fired. The ball whistled in. It looked just as small and twice as lively as a drop of water dancing on a hot griddle. All afternoon, the Cards collected only eight hits, turned them into three thin runs. Not a man among them drew a walk. The Dodgers, meanwhile, scored twelve times. In five times at bat the versatile Newk got two singles, a double, and a tremendous homer into the right field stands...
...first risk was in dancing at all. It was considered permissible for him to take ballet lessons in 1910, when he was studying for the Methodist ministry at the University of Denver, only because he was learning to walk again after an attack of diphtheria had paralyzed him from the waist down. But when the Denver Post sponsored a "Quatre Arts" ball at which Ted and his teacher performed a decorous waltz, respectable folk-Methodist or not-were horrified. One of Ted's fraternity brothers quietly drew him aside for a brotherly dressing down. "Men," he said with finality...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Sixten Ehrling conducting the Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra in the third act of Wagner's Die Walk...
Louis Wolfson, who normally loves the spotlight, was busy dodging it. He ducked a senatorial subpoena ordering him to testify in the strike of the Wolfson-controlled Capital Transit Co., which has forced thousands of Washingtonians to hitch rides or walk to work during the past two weeks. Despite the inconvenience, Washingtonians seemed almost solidly against Employer Wolfson and in favor of his employees, striking for a 25?-an-hour pay hike and other benefits. Crying that Wolfson was an "economic carpetbagger," Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse introduced a bill to strip Capital Transit of its franchise...