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...Huey and Earl, declaring himself a gubernatorial hopeful for 1964. Then there is another cousin, State Senator Speedy O. Long, 34; Speedy wants the governor's mansion too, but U.S. Senator Russell B. Long has already pledged support to Cousin Gillis. Meanwhile, Mrs. Blanche Long -Earl's widow and Russell's aunt by marriage-says that she will manage the campaign of a third candidate, not related, Louisiana's Public Service Commissioner John McKeithen. Come primary time next December, the kissin' cousins are apt to be all puckered...
...Sweden and France and built ore-skimpy Germany into a major steel power. His son, Fritz Thyssen, was the first industrialist to support Hitler, but in 1939 denounced him and spent most of the war in a Nazi internment camp; he died in 1951. Fritz Thyssen's widow, Amelie, now 85, proved resourceful: she found loopholes in the Allied decartelization decrees and gradually welded together much of the old steel dynasty. From her Bavarian castle, Frau Thyssen today controls 52% of Phoenix stock and 12% of August Thyssen stock; her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires...
Whatever happens to Joan Crawford, 45. there seemed to be no room in her future for Pepsi on the Rocks. In Philadelphia with Adopted Daughter Cindy to accept an award from the Philadelphia Club of Advertising Women, the veteran screen star, widow of Pepsi Cola Chairman Alfred M. Steele and herself a board member, pooh-poohed those rumors that she might play First Lady to New York's dashing, divorced Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Highly unlikely, said Joan; she has only met Rocky once. Furthermore, "I don't need this publicity, and I'm sure he doesn...
...naughty old Paris of the turn of the century, Maxim's was a wicked wonderland. Girls with velvet names like Lolo, Dodo, Cloclo and Froufrou lolled there hoping to meet a king, a count, even a pretender, and were celebrated by Franz Lehar in his Merry Widow ("Now I'm off to Chez Maxim, where it's always so in-time"). Today the wine and the food are still among Paris' best, and there are girls there still, but they are rather a different sort. They are going to school...
Raymond plays Christy Mahon, the dreamy wanderer whose bloody tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs...