Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...improbable rout of colonial types: the pudgy little rajah (Govind Raja Ross), his noisy American governess (Lauren Bacall), the British governor's unflappable wife (Ursula Jeans) and dithering secretary (Wilfrid Hyde White), a nefarious newsman (Herbert Lorn), two stolid Sikhs attached to primordial machine guns, a charming person (I.S. Johar) who runs locomotives, and an unspeakable person (Eugene Deckers) who runs guns. They all pile into an ancient passenger car drawn by a wondrously dilapidated steam engine called "Victoria"-apparently because it was built in the year (1819) of Her Majesty's birth-and go barreling through...
...from Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd, who strongly protested Connole's dismissal. Connole had won a reputation as the commission's chief defender of the consumer. Charged Dodd: "This case highlights the lack of concern by this Administration for the consumer and the small person." Nothing in Donegan's Justice Department work, said Senator Dodd, indicates that he will make a better commissioner than Connole. Dodd pointed to Donegan's own remark: "I've never had anything to do with utilities outside of paying my gas bill." The White House hostility...
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 61, sometime newspaperman and author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno...
...Howard faction of liberals crystallizes, so does an anti-Howard clique of conservatives, and the short-fused passions of left v. right detonate. Playing Zola to Howard's Dreyfus is a man of good will and strong character, Lewis Eliot, the upper-echelon bureaucrat and first-person narrator who either dominates or "I" witnesses most of the Snow novels. What Eliot gradually collects is not so much the evidence to clear Howard as the ambiguous human motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, occasionally selfless-that convict all would-be judges...
...Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Charles Collingwood visits Herbert Hoover at the ex-President's cottage on Florida's Key Largo...