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Beyond Ignoring. Texas-born Sarah McClendon, 49, plays the role of President-baiter by both temperament and design. As a cub reporter in Tyler, Texas, she once picked up a telephone and clobbered a clergyman who was pummeling her editor for running an uncomplimentary story. This same pugnacity has characterized her behavior in Washington. When Sarah rises at presidential press conferences, it is not just the President who winces; an almost audible shudder runs through the room. Typically, Sarah arrives early, so as to get a seat down front, bounces up and down with a persistence that both Eisenhower...
...hair, bright pannikin eyes and a look-ma smile, he seems to have been formed by a head-on collision between Mickey Rooney and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is the little ploy next door, and the vast delight of How to Succeed is in watching this studiously naive charming cub cheetah knock the spots off a pack of ravenous yes-men. After each victory Morse turns to the audience with a collaborative expression on his face that somehow touches a sympathetic nerve in every expense accountable soul in the house, who recognizes both the tactic and the impulse...
...cover carried a four-color photograph of Princess Margaret with the caption, STORK OVER SNOWDON. Inside, together with a 3,000-word account of the royal pregnancy (she is putting on more weight than her physicians probably approve, betrays an insatiable appetite for beef), Topic readers found the news cub-byholed under such section headings as "Britain's Week," "World Week," "Travel," "Fashion," "Agriculture," "Spirits" and "Transport...
...Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose, and Tennessee Williams, and William Inge. The word shot quickly over the mink-line to the Stork's Cub Room, El Morocco and the Harwyn Club. Inside of just a few weeks, virtually everybody who is anybody in café society had snapped up the Peppermint like a brand-new charity...
...Great Northern Railway, Maris was a phenomenal high school football player. No student ("Sports took up all my time; I couldn't keep my mind on books"), Maris turned down some half-dozen col lege scholarship offers to try out with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs. Impressed by his fluid swing and his pull-hitting power, the Indians offered Roger a $15,000 bonus. The Cubs, for some unfathomable reason, were totally unimpressed. "Son, my advice to you," said one Cub official, "is to give up the idea of playing ball. You'll never make...