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...dispatch from Washington, where the American Society of Newspaper Editors was in annual convention, notified the Kansas City Star and its readers that the Star's 68-year-old president, Roy A. Roberts, whose wife died three years ago, had become engaged to marry Mrs. Charles G. Ross, widow of the presidential press secretary to Harry Truman...
...comedies of the '50s, young girls may marry men in their 40s, all is well. Champagne Complex is that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments, and more champagne drinking than in any stage work since The Merry Widow, the show is only spottily festive".' To prolong the journey from the psychoanalytic to the nuptial couch through three acts, the play has to detour, go in for vaudeville, toss dull cracks after bright ones, try to make the loud pedal sound like a new tune. The real honors...
...Country) and philosopher. To his brooding, deep-thrusting mind, the exchange with the Red army man summarized "the predicament of the free world." It drove him back to the first values of his existence, and led him finally to draft this book. The Dignity of Man (finished by his widow and several journalist friends after "Mitch" Davenport died last year at 54) is a searching inquiry into the greatness as well as the failures of America. Fear of Nothing. When Communist dictators claim Svoboda as their own, when Communist slave masters accuse capitalism of slavery, Americans blame "Communist propaganda...
...widow, Maryland McCormick, 57, the Colonel willed a $100,000 yearly income for life. At her own request, he left her no say in the Trib. "I'm not a newspaperwoman." says Maryland McCormick. "Some people thought I would take a bigger hand in things, but I just don't want it." The Colonel did spot an heir way down on the family tree. In his will he asked that seven-year-old Mark McCormick Miller, Bazy Tankersley's son by her first marriage, be "given an opportunity to be employed on the staff of the Chicago...
After his old editor Bukharin was finally liquidated in the great 1938 Moscow show trial, Soloviev was sentenced to "minus six," i.e., he was forbidden to live in Russia's six largest cities. He appealed to Lenin's widow and, through her, to Malenkov, with no result. Eventually, Soloviev was drafted and sent to Finland. In World War II he was assigned to a special task force that pulled Russian forces out from behind the advancing German armies and reassembled them for combat. Soloviev himself was pulled out of the war when the Nazis captured him during their...