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When the retiring Vice President of the U.S. packed up and headed for his old Kentucky home last January, it seemed that his distinguished political career was over. But last week the political sun shone bright on Kentucky's old (75) Alben Barkley...
...last week Schacter's idea had mushroomed into the most high-pressured culture drive Kentucky had ever seen. Alben Barkley was in on it, and so were Happy Chandler, Senators Earle Clements and John Sherman Cooper, Novelists A. B. Guthrie and Robert Penn Warren. Chairmaned by Mrs. Barry Bingham, the energetic wife of the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the campaign was out to put Parnassus on wheels, get no bookmobiles circulating through the state. This week, in Nelson County, the first one was about to go into operation...
...Representative at the United Nations and father of two (George, 25, and Henry, 22), was named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day (June 21) Committee. Other fathers picked as the best family men in their fields: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle ("Humanitarian Father"), Alben W. Berkley (radio), Rocky Marciano (sports), Melvyn Douglas (stage), Ezio Pinza (music), Danny Thomas (cinema), John Daly (TV). Cited as "Father's Favorite Female": Beatrice Lillie...
...lunch (invariably cottage cheese or fruit salads), with Mrs. Secretary issuing orders as she eats. It is 7:15 p.m., and often later, before her powder-blue, Government-owned Cadillac pulls up in front of the Connecticut Avenue apartment where she lives (along with such other tenants as the Alben Barkleys, Senator Eugene Millikin, Justice Tom Clark). Then, after a shower and a light supper, there is homework. Most nights, Oveta Hobby is hard at work until midnight...
...Hearst Jr., Walter D. Fuller and Jack R. Howard, Comedian Danny Kaye, RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), 20th Century-Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras. Also present at the ceremonies, sponsored in Manhattan during Brotherhood Week by the National Conference of Christians and Jews: Alben W. Barkley and wife Jane...