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Married. Styles Bridges, 45, chunky, loud Republican Senator from New Hampshire; and Doloris Thauwald, 26, civil servant in the State Department; he for the third time, she for the first; in St. Paul, Minn...
...above the level of safe, dull political prose. He has rarely tried anything which had not been tried before. A calm man of Swedish descent, slow to anger, he has stuck close to the middle of the road. But the record does reveal an able, hardworking, personally attractive public servant who, with the westering sun of California behind him, is casting a longer and longer shadow across the land...
...security," the Army has become progressively stricter in defining what newsmen can print. Its new doctrine means, if its words mean anything, that the Army may now (by its "vested interest") definitively prescribe what news may be printed in wartime and what not. Seldom in democratic countries had a servant of the people gone so far before...
...Touraine he worked ten hours a day for four months each year. In Paris, visitors, the mail and the telephone slowed him down. But he kept two secretaries busy. One of them was Lise Dreyfus, brown-eyed, slim, with brown curls piled high on her head, a Government civil servant who had studied in Germany, England and France. Eight years ago Romains married her. She says, "I became at once wife and secretary...
...extravagant for her. Other royal guests included King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI. The house was so vast that, the story goes, guests were given packets of wafers to strew along the corridors showing the way back to their rooms. A guest once rang the servant's bell on Saturday; it was Monday before his man appeared. During one Doncaster race week, a butler walked 54 miles in four days, merely attending his household duties...