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...Alben Barkley...
Meet the Veep (Sun. 5:30 p.m., NBCTV) helps reduce the ranks of unemployed Democrats by paying ex-Vice President Alben Barkley a reported $2,500 a week for 15 minutes of his time. With the assistance of 72-year-old Newsman Earl Godwin, 75-year-old Barkley fills his show with political anecdotes, sidelights on such personages as Franklin Roosevelt ("He went back to the horse & buggy days in his shaving-he used a straight-edged razor"), and cheery comment on world affairs ("I think Korea is tragic but not insoluble"). For his first show, Barkley won high praise...
...Washington Alben Barkley announced that he was going to work for the National Broadcasting Co. as a television commentator. His program, a Sunday evening discussion of current topics called Meet the Veep, will be nonpartisan, said Barkley, and he will not have a sponsor unless he can find one in keeping with the dignity of his former office. "This won't be the limit of my activities for the next few years," warned the 75-year-old ex-Vice President...
...make that charge against Communist Yugoslavia, a dictatorship which is trying harder & harder to assume democratic trappings. One day last week Yugoslavia's Parliament met to select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were there any other nominations? asked Speaker Josip Vidmar. The Parliament roared with laughter...
Richard Nixon told a Washington columnist that he would prefer the full title of his office rather than the familiar term Veep, which was, he said, "a title of affection given to a fine man-Barkley-and like the uniform numerals which are retired with great football players, I think the nickname should go with...