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...greying first cousin to F.D.R. and first-string hostess in New York's fashionable Tuxedo Park; business and G.O.P. committeewoman who worked like a piston on her campaign and announced that one of her goals was to "have every union member a capitalist." She had the backing of Ham Fish, for what it was worth. Republican St. George will be one of two new women in the House.* The other: Democrat Georgia Lusk, first woman ever to be elected to Congress from New Mexico...
...Kelly had held Chicago in his ham-handed fist for a dozen years. But last week his grip was so flabby that the Democrats lost, besides four Congressmen, two key county officers. The city simply could not pile up the plurality to outweigh the Republican suburbs in Cook County. With a Republican treasurer and Republican sheriff handing out Republican patronage, next April might well see a Republican in City Hall...
...instance, looked like a real duel. And its Cyrano - who is after all the whole show - was a good Cyrano. Jose Ferrer (who has ranged on Broadway from a hilarious Charley's "aunt" to an impressive lago) caught the human being in Cyrano as well as the ham. As the monstrous-nosed, self-sacrificing lover who eloquently poured out his feeling for the beautiful Roxane in another man's behalf, Actor ( Ferrer was often not romantic enough. But as the hot-blooded, proud-plumed Gascon who overworked his sword, he had the right brag and strut; he polished...
...Pyramids . . . Rotundas, and Palladian Bridges" through which Pope, Dr. Johnson, Boswell and Garrick once roamed. The present-day heiress to the tumbledown estate is ten-year-old Maria, "one of those tough and friendly people who do things first and think about them afterward." The plot of Mistress Mas ham's Repose revolves around the efforts of Maria's fiendish guardians to abduct the Lilliputians and sell them to Hollywood...
Cairnie started to live back in 1927, when, after studying Architectural Landscaping at the Harvard Graduate Schol for some years, he and a companion merged their private libraries and hung out a shingle. At first, profits barely reached the ham of a mythical piggy-bank. Then came the boom. Judge Woolsey, a man of taste, made his famous decision permitting James Joyce's "Ulysses" into the country, and the book-stalls began buzzing. Cambridge shops were hesitant about handling the controversial volume, and while they discussed the matter with the local Legion of Decency, Cairnie loaded his shelves with...