What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist. She worked as a freelance writer for Junior Bazaar and Mademoiselle magazines before becoming a researcher at Life for $65 a week in 1951. Another Life magazine article about a suicide hot line worker's efforts to keep a caller from killing herself was turned into the 1965 film The Slender Thread which starred Sidney Poitier and Anne Bancroft.

Kilpatrick. She was a daughter of Tin Pan Alley composer Milton Ager who composed the song "Happy Days Are Here Again" and his wife columnist Cecelia Ager.