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Circle in the Square. Writing and talking, sitting or standing, Jean Kerr has gotten more material out of her family than anyone since Clarence Day. Her most recent collection of casual pieces, The Snake Has All the Lines, has been on every bestseller list and in nearly every hospital room in the country. Its phenomenally successful predecessor, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, has sold nearly 275,000 hard-cover copies. All of which has made Jean Kerr even more famous than her children, the five sons who apparently play she-loves-me-she-loves-me-not with their teeth...
...upstairs disproving his title ?flaked out like Perrault's princess at least until i p.m. When they were married, he fondly told her that he would bring her coffee each morning, a custom that lasted some ten or twelve minutes. "The first time I brought it, having gotten up quietly," he recalls, "I gently woke her, and nearly got blown out of the room. She told me that must never, never happen again. And it never...
...pulpit and of its readers as a congregation: "We feel a duty along the lines of leading them in thought along the proper channels. We are just the same as we always were. I'd say the left has just moved farther left. The leftist influence has gotten so much stronger that we have got to holler louder to make ourselves heard." On those terms, the News is a hollering success...
...Angolan named Holden Roberto, returned last week to Leopoldville from lobbying around U.N. headquarters in Manhattan to take command of the rebel campaign. Deploring the slayings in Angola, he insisted that his men had been ordered only to begin a campaign of sabotage and general disobedience, but had gotten out of hand when the Portuguese ordered a series of brutal repressions...
...urging, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest against Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini and Hitler. Salisbury was a strong proponent of Eden's ill-fated intervention in Suez. In 1957 Salisbury resigned from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government because he thought that Britain had gotten "too soft" in dealing with the rebellion in Cyprus...