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Like a man trying to fill a glass of water to the brim without spilling a drop, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey last week turned in a neat performance with the national debt. The Treasury's recent offering of $2 billion in seven-year 2¾% bonds went so well that Humphrey permitted it to be oversold by $240 million. With the market for Government borrowings beginning to tighten up for the first time in many weeks, Humphrey did not know when he would be able to sell bonds at such a low rate again...
When he asked the Democratic National Committee for financial support, Williams was turned down. Party leaders said they did not care to invest in a lost cause. With only about $3,000 to spend, Candidate Williams plodded around the district in a faded raincoat and a battered, narrow-brim hat. He knew that Republican Representative Clifford Case, who had resigned . to take a Ford Foundation job, was highly popular. So he promised to follow in Case's voting footsteps: e.g., he promised wholehearted support of the Eisenhower foreign policy. Williams' Republican opponent was another Plainfield lawyer, George Hetfield...
...African side, the captain quick-changes into dove-grey flannels and a snap-brim felt, darts to a waiting taxi and heads, by way of the flower shop, for a glassily sinful flat in one of the tonier hotels. There he is passionately greeted by wife No. 2, a sexy, black-haired baggage (Yvonne de Carlo) who throws the cootch around in nightclubs, guzzles champagne, and takes moonlight plunges in the Mediterranean...
...goggle-eyed dummy named Jerry Mahoney, is out to prove that there is more to his talents than dandling a doll on his knee. Television's top ventriloquist, Winchell is beginning his sixth TV season by filling his half-hour show (Sun. 7 p.m. E.S.T., NBC) to the brim with Paul Winchell, master of ceremonies, man of many voices, dramatic actor, singer, dancer and soap salesman (Cheer and Camay). By such breathless activity, Winchell, a muscular, 29-year-old New Yorker, hopes to escape an occupational hazard of ventriloquism: becoming incidental to his "doll" in the public mind...
Cannon & Coffee. His most important experiment: working with a cannon-boring machine, he established the equivalence of heat and work, demolishing the long-accepted "caloric" theory. In verbose essays, Rumford also discussed such unscientific subjects as pudding eating ("With a spoon . . . begin on the outside, or near the brim of the plate . . . approach the center by regular advances, in order not to demolish too soon the excavation which forms the reservoir for the sauce") and coffee making (he recommended the drip method...