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...voice in the show, and keeps the early scenes going with her treatments of "My Love is On the Way," and "It's the Going Home Together," which she shares with Hugh Fortmiller as Ulysses. Despite a fine performance, however, her part lacks some of the color which adds zest to the other female leads...
After Forest High School, Jim went to the University of Mississippi, where he began to display some of the zest for politics he had acquired from his father, one of Mississippi's bigger, behind-the-scenes political operators. Once, remembers Jim, "I had to arrange for a whole board to get elected in order to elect myself business manager of the paper." On another occasion he broke open a ballot box for two strong reasons: 1) to fix the election of a friend as prettiest girl; 2) to filch ballots proclaiming him (as he recalls) biggest liar...
When his work took him south to the U.S., Pop Johannsen helped lay out trails around Lake Placid; soon his services were in demand wherever a North American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace...
Immobilizing Absence. Of itself, the new Soviet threat need not unnerve a nation with an inherent zest for political and economic competition. But it is bound to cause apprehension if the highest leaders of Government in the U.S. and elsewhere fail to call the new signals. One trouble in Washington is that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in pursuit of person-to-person diplomacy abroad, has been too busy to spell out the State Department's policies to congressional committees and the people as thoroughly as he did earlier. But a more important factor is that because...
...fielded every conceivable variation of the great question about his political future. When one reporter asked him to list the factors that would influence his decision on running for a second term, Ike made the obvious reply that it was primarily a question of health, of "the zip and zest that you can take into conferences when you have to get something done for the good of the U.S." Asked whether any members of his family objected to his running again, Ike goodhumoredly answered "No," thereby confounding the innumerable "reliable sources" who have reported that Mamie wants him to retire...