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...said that Dr. Sockman "looks like Adolph Menjou and acts like John Wesley." The urbane six-footer, in his Homburg and pinstripe, and the warmly moving preacher who crowds his church with 1,500 people of a Sunday, are both a far cry from the farm boy in Mount Vernon, Ohio, whose first speaking experience was when he used to bring cows in at night from a dark wood, and "to keep up my courage, I talked out loud to them." That was not necessarily the road to eloquence; some years later he made some speeches for the Anti-Saloon...
...Mount Vernon, Ind., Indiana University Showboat Majestic: Anchored in the Ohio River, the showboat is presenting Don Marquis' vintage comedy, The Old Soak...
...birthday. Labeling the gift a "private matter," White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger was equally reticent about the ensuing family celebration. When buttonholed on whether the birthday cake was bought or donated, Salinger-still slightly burned by the fallout over Jackie's last major social function, at Mount Vernon-smoothly replied: "It was baked...
Three cheers to Jackie Kennedy for her continued creativity and imagination in making use of Mount Vernon to entertain...
...French cuisine of the New Frontier may have claimed a Republican victim. Shortly after Jacqueline Kennedy's Mount Vernon fête champêtre (TIME, July 21), Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 65, a cornbred Illinoisan, checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital for treatment of a reactivated peptic ulcer that had been quiescent for many years...