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Next day Edson telephoned Lawyer Smith. He got his facts, wrote his story, and N.E.A. airmailed it to 800 clients for release on the following Thursday. Wrote Edson: "Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Richard M. Nixon has been receiving an extra expense allowance from between 50 and 100 well-to-do Southern California political angels ever since he entered the Senate in 1951. Over the past two years these contributions have amounted to approximately...
...Halsey was 28 when her best-selling assault on the British way of life, With Malice Toward Some (TIME, Aug. 28, 1938), swept her into realization of "the American Dream-the sudden, juicy, delicious, enthralling, entrancing, exhilarating acquisition of money." "Between Sunday night and Monday morning" she became a well-to-do celebrity, all set to hurl herself into the "national pastime" of "having things nice." "I had people in to dinner, and I had a maid to cook the dinner ... I got a divorce, which is standard. I went to a psychoanalyst-which is standard...
...Halsey is happily remarried and the mother of a four-year-old daughter. She is, by her own description, a middle-class mamma who "wears cotton shirts and blue jeans to everything but weddings, christenings and funerals." She turns a deaf ear to the clang of falling shekels. Being well-to-do has convinced her that The Dream is pure nightmare...
Mitchell is a Roman Catholic, which is almost a requirement for the job of Democratic national chairman. He was born 49 years ago in Rock Valley, Iowa, son of a well-to-do banker ("We had ponies," recalls Mitchell) who lost his money, became a dairy farmer with young Steve's help. By janitoring and chauffeuring, young Mitchell worked his way through Creighton University prep school at Omaha. Later, he worked in the credit and sales promotion departments of General Motors Acceptance Corp. in Washington, studied law at Georgetown University at night. In 1932, he moved to Chicago...
...Egypt that the stirrings of emancipated women rocked Islam's elders most, for it took place in the very shadow of the mosques and chambers where the high priests of Islam hold their greatest sway. Well-to-do Egyptian women formed the Feminist National Party. Another group, Daughters of the Nile, led by smart and young (34) Doria Shafik, a philosophy graduate of the Sorbonne, signed up more than 1,000 upper-class Egyptian women. They prowl Cairo fixing politicians with the same gimlet stare on which Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt once impaled squirming U.S. Senators...