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...Wackiest Ship in the Army (Columbia). Comedian Jack Lemmon is a 35-year-old graduate of Andover and Harvard who somehow manages to look like The Eternal Milkman. He has nice aver age features, stands a nice average height, speaks nice average American. In a group he resembles almost anybody he happens to be standing next to; by himself he has a vague, muzzy look, as though instead of being born he had been sent by Wirephoto. His comedy is the comedy of the hopelessly normal, mass-produced joe in the hopelessly insane, mass-produced situation. In six years...
...Bowles of Connecticut, who added to the gossip by announcing last week that he would not run for re-election to Congress but would campaign for Kennedy instead; Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; or one of two former U.S. Ambassadors to Russia-Aver ell Harriman or George Kennan. Adlai Stevenson is now being mentioned more often as Ambassador to the U.N., although his old friend Eleanor Roosevelt, who still wants him to be Secretary of State, last week said that "his qualifications are not those needed at the moment...
...Mason City homefolks, grabbed a baton and proudly led a 208-piece band (with, naturally, 76 trombones and no cornets) down the main street, later uncorked lus ire at rock 'n' roll: "It's a plague as far-reaching as any plague we've aver had. My preoccupation with this creeping paralysis is not with the lascivious quality, the suggestive dancing that goes with it. This is bad, and it's been condemned before. My complaint is that it just isn't music. It's utter garbage. This music stupefies these kids...
Saturday, the freshman face a strong Yale quintet, which has lost only two games. The Elis beast a 6 ft., 10 in-center and two rugged forwards aver-aging...
Culinary nomenclature subtly manages to convey certain historic sidelights. Metternich, whose name on any menu stands for paprika, was a firm enemy of Hungarian nationalism but a great lover of Hungary's national spice. The Esterhazy family, gastronomic historians aver, oscillated for centuries between opulence and (relative) frugality: one generation would have to economize by eating things like beefsteak a la Esterhazy (made from a cheaper cut of meat) because their heedless fathers had eaten too many Tournedos a la Metternich...