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In Madrid, Spanish Concert Guitarist Andres Segovia, 59, was rushed to the hospital for surgery after suffering a sudden detachment of the retina of his right eye. With his left eye also in danger, weeks will pass before Segovia's doctors can tell whether his eyesight will be saved. Before entering the operating room, Segovia asked for his guitar, closed his eyes, and played before a rapt audience of doctors and nurses. "Now I know I can go on playing even if I remain blind for the rest of my life," he said. "Let us go on."
When Tennis Star Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 18, got a heroine's welcome at the San Diego railroad station after winning the U.S. clay courts tennis title in River Forest, Ill., photographers asked her to kiss her 21-year-old seagoing boy friend, Petty Officer Norman Brinker. Little Mo politely refused, gave him a warm hug and a smile instead. But things were different at home. A cameraman followed her out to the stable, snapped her in a reunion with Colonel Merryboy, a seven-year-old roan presented to her last year by admiring citizens of San Diego.
Lucius Beebe, the dandy who swapped Manhattan's upholstered saloons last year for the publisher's desk on Nevada's Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, sang the praises of the rugged Nevada life to Columnist Leonard Lyons, but admitted that he still had a dude's taste for comfort. His bathroom contains, among other things, "my private barber chair, a reading rack of periodicals, phone extension, four slot machines, a crystal chandelier and a cuckoo clock . . ."
For the benefit of Washington's women about town, Newshen Ruth Montgomery of the New York Daily News whipped up a little list of the capital's most eligible bachelors, tossed in some helpful hints on their personal qualifications. Speaker of the House Joe Martin: "Public Enemy No. 1, as far as Cupid is concerned . . . This engaging male is 68, dimpled, dark-haired and modest . . . has a shy sweetness ..." House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn (71): "Baldheaded, short and a little pudgy, but he's a blue-ribbon darling in anybody's date book . . . Footloose and fancy-free." Georgia Senator Dick Russell (55): "At the very mention of his name, Washington widows heave and sigh . . . The darling of the Southland, has just about everything. He's gallant, handsome, debonair, wise and charming." Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green: "If it's money you're after . . . he's Mr. Moneybags himself. But don't expect this 85-year-old tennis player to lavish his wealth on a mere woman. Rumor has it that when the Senator used to take his rich constituent, Mrs. Perle Mesta, out on the town, he called for her by streetcar." Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy (43): "The rough-and-ready type . . . He's eagerly sought after by right-wing Republican dowagers . . . Joe may need a little breaking-in, however . . . We know a lady interior decorator who quit her job for a millionaire Representative because every time she called on the client at his swank Foxhall Road estate, Joe was slouched on the davenport with feet on a priceless antique coffee table."