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Powell is a Congressman without a constituency, for the minute he goes back to his New York City district he risks being clapped in jail under contempt of court sentences, which total 16 months and spring from his failure to pay a libel judgment to a Negro widow. That and his alleged gross misuse of committee funds for his own enjoyment were the reasons for his disbarment. The action was as unexpected as it was unprecedented. Not in the 56-year history of the House's seniority system had a committee chairman been sacked for any sin other than...
Victim No. 1 is a wealthy widow (Anna Quayle) who consoles herself by bawling the Kashmiri Song ("Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar/ Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far?") while she somehow makes her harp sound like a bedspring banged with a coal scuttle. Before long teeny Tony, her stepson and heir, just can't face the music. So he runs a wire from his toy-train set to the frame of the harp, transforming it into a colossal toaster that does stepmother up brown...
Until last week, Powell's most flagrant public sin was his defiance of the New York courts that have sentenced him to a 16-month jail term for contempt (he has consistently refused to pay a defamation judgment won by a Harlem Negro widow). Then, on the eve of the new session, the Negro Congressman was hit from a new direction. Reporting on a three-month investigation of the financial affairs of the House Education and Labor Committee, of which Powell is chairman, House probers concluded that...
...indicates that Lyndon Johnson was every inch the gentlemanly sympathizer during those tense moments in Dallas and later in Washington. Jackie wrote several letters to Johnson after the assassination, reported the Chicago Daily News, that "contradict the account of Mr. John son's behavior toward the grief-stricken widow." In addition, Johnson's statement to the Warren Commission shows his sensitive concern for Jackie at a time when he still was not sure about his own safety or the country...
Filed for probate in Los Angeles, the will of Walt Disney settled 45% of his vast estate on a Disney Family Trust for his widow Lillian, their two daughters and seven grandchildren; another 45% went to the philanthropic Disney Foundation, chiefly for the benefit of the California Institute of the Arts, and the remaining 10% established a trust fund for his sister and three nieces. The great fantasist's will mentions no dollar figures, but with all his monumental real-estate holdings and film enterprises, the total is estimated at more than $50 million...