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...Governor Lee was a "disruptive influence" in the party, wrecked his hopes for a third term. Lee took revenge in 1958 by running for the U.S. Senate as an independent, gathering so many normally Republican votes that able Republican Arthur V. Watkins lost his Senate seat to Democrat Frank Moss. With the state's Republican organization unforgivingly angry at him, Lee seemed politically dead-until he ran for mayor of Salt Lake City last year as an independent...
...twelve-hour endurance race over the runways of an old bomber base outside of Scoring, Fla. Strong favorites were the flashy Ferraris, and the new, deep-throated Maserati that was driven in relays by the crack team of California's Dan Gurney and Britain's redoubtable Stirling Moss...
Coke & King Zog. Writing hundreds of letters a week, he touts books and movies (current examples: Moss Hart's autobiography, Act One, and the film version of The World of Suzie Wong). Coca-Cola has bought the Hoffman touch, as have Bulova watches, Gambler Frank Costello, and King Zog of Albania. Sometimes called a "suppressagent" as well, Hoffman collects healthy fees from his clients for keeping material out of the papers. Israeli government officials, for instance, recently proposed to shake the earth with a photograph of Jewish Converts Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe doing a September Morn scene knee...
...Moss Hart's Act One reflects the undying interest in the theater when a prime mover goes uninhibitedly candid; and Herman Wouk's This Is My God, while it surely owes much of its success to the fact that its author is a bestselling novelist, is nevertheless a competent and tender summary of the Jewish faith...
...Moss Hart. Playwright (You Can't Take It with You) and Director (My Fair Lady) Hart tells of his youthful trek from The Bronx to Broadway. Few memoirs, theatrical or otherwise, can equal this autobiography's suspenseful plot, zany supporting cast and surefire humor...