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...years as a Congressman, Illinois Republican Noah Morgan Mason counted himself a lone voice speaking out against "socialistic government," a view that resulted in plenty of advice but little consent to New Deal, Fair Deal and Eisenhower programs alike. Now 82, the per snickety Welshman will retire this July 31. But "not to hibernate," he said. "I plan to become a missionary to the liberal heathen of the Hill . . . preaching conservatism to those members who yet may be saved to a happier future...
...drive curved over onto the wrong fairway, and his irons caught the rough with distressing regularity. But Richard Davies, 31-year-old Pasadena, Calif., real estate man, still managed to beat Welshman John Povall one up in the 36-hole match play final, thus becoming the twelfth American to win the British Amateur golf championship, second only to the U.S. amateur as a prize for play-for-fun golfers...
...wooden box in London's Aldwych Theater for a mock hanging scene in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Griffith slipped, felt the noose tighten round his neck, and blacked out gurgling. First came the smelling salts, then the brandy. Ten minutes later the beetle-browed Welshman was back-and with a hangdog look, remounted the box to go on with the show. "I had forebodings about the scene ever since we started rehearsals." said he. "That box was a bit rickety...
...days later, Liz was back in Rome, and back in the hospital-recuperating from a lovers' quarrel that included what looked mighty like a black eye. At that, blonde Sybil Burton turned up in town to see if she could bring her wayward Welshman to heel, had their four-year-old daughter Kate flown in for added persuasion. "I'm finished," wailed Liz, gobbling sedatives "for my nerves." Not quite. 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra still has the big suicide scene to shoot. The asp was waiting...
...Seasons). This "early autobiography," as he ambivalently calls it, carries him no farther than age 21. But that handful of years makes a moving story-the precarious flowering of a brilliant talent in a pastoral slum and the transplanting that almost killed it. And, as befits a Welshman, Williams' writing is like singing...