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...crystal chandeliers in the U.S. Capitol had been taken down, disassembled, washed prism by prism, reassembled and rehung. Twenty-two painters had brushed their way across Capitol Hill, cleaning and painting walls. By this week all was in readiness for the fall of the gavel opening the second session of the 84th Congress...
Weary of trying to plumb the future with mere logic and female intuition, Washington Political Gossipist Ruth Montgomery pilgrimaged to the crystal ball of an uncanny lady named Jeane Dixon, an amateur seeress-astrologist whose predictions have often become next year's headlines.*What Jeane told Ruth: Ike will be re-elected next year, and "he will run the Government like you would run a big business," delegating many duties to ease the strain on his heart. His "Assistant President" will be Thomas E. Dewey. Adlai Stevenson's timing is all wrong; he is a political dead duck...
...SUNKEN GARDEN, by Douglass Wallop (254 pp.; Norton; $3.50), spins this sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...
...accuracy of the CRIMSON's annual predictions for the new year never fails to cheer those journalists who suffer from the January reminder of New Year spirits. While holding our heads, we once more gather our crystal ball, tea leaves, Almanac, astrological reports, and bottle of Geneva spirits in order to announce the coming events...
...League basketball coaches gazed into their collective crystal yesterday and predicted gloom for the Crimson. The final standings, they say: Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, Harvard and Brown...