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Next, while the 77-year-old widow of George Catlett Marshall strained to hear from her front-row seat, came a passage from the 1947 Harvard speech in which the soldier-statesman proposed the Marshall Plan of postwar aid: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." For his third offering, March had planned to read Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Killers. But as tribute to World War II PT-boat Hero Kennedy, Widow Mary Hemingway had dug through a bank vault of her husband's unpublished manuscripts...
Caricature Capitalism. Both Weill and Brecht, recalls Weill's widow, Singer Lotte Lenya, were fascinated by the America they knew "from books, movies, popular songs, headlines-the America of the garish Twenties, with its Capones, Texas Guinans, Aimee Semple MacPhersons, Ponzis, and the Murderess Ruth Snyder." The mythical city of Mahagonny (pronounced mah-hah-ge-nee) was a symbol of that imaginary America, and the city's reason for being was summed up in the name of its principal hotel: the Here-You-May-Do-Anything Inn. The opera's songs marked a turning point for Composer...
...Powell was beaten in senatorial primaries; in 1956, he was defeated in the gubernatorial primary. Then, in 1959, he began his current regime as Governor. Last year, when Styles Bridges died. Powell completed his declaration of political independence by refusing to appoint the Senator's widow to his seat...
...skinny and French. They live in Paris of 1912, and are almost as young as they feel. All day they write poetry, all night they run after girls. For relaxation they sneer at money and doodle on café tables. Sometimes they box, and once they share a widow...
...last days of Christ, leading up to the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, are told through close-ups of paintings. Color. Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Bob Cummings, Audrey Meadows star in a comedy about a New Orleans confidence man who sets out to bilk a lively widow. Jazz musical score improvised by Gerry Mulligan. Color...