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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Dwight Eisenhower's presidency draws near, Washington increasingly speculates about how it will feel to him to leave the White House for the comparative obscurity of private life. No man can surrender the pomp and power of the presidency without a sense of loss, but the President's aides are convinced that, on balance, he will welcome his freedom. "He's delighted that there's a 22nd Amendment," says one presidential confidant. "He thinks eight years is enough...
...Ungar was actively seeking a city contract for a $30 million slum-clearance project. Jack at first claimed that his wife had paid the bill out of her housekeeping allowance. Later he told District Attorney Frank Hogan that he had lied, confessed that Ungar had "loaned" him the money without collateral. Charged by a grand jury with violations of the city charter and with conspiracy to conceal the violations, Jack prudently suspended himself from office, the highest elective position in the U.S. held by a Negro, until "such time as a final determination of my case is made" (TIME...
Sand Hog & Cowboy. Harris was a bullying bantam of a man (barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...
...thought seriously (he later said) of bombing William Ewart Gladstone to death in the House of Commons. Instead, he took up journalism, brazened his way to the editorship of the Evening News. At first, he ran it "as a scholar and man of the world of twenty-eight"-without success; "but as I went downwards and began to edit as I felt at twenty, then at eighteen, I was more successful; but when I got to my tastes at fourteen years of age, I found instantaneous response. Kissing and fighting were the only things I cared for at thirteen...
Henry IV, Part 1. Nicely balancing Shakespeare's broadsword heroics against his tankard humor, Manhattan's Phoenix Theater offers a play that in modern times has not always fared well with big names, here does an attractive job without...