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Nixon, talking from his train at Chico, Calif., objected strongly to any such pilgrimage of humiliation. He had a counterproposal: he would dictate a statement and Ike could issue it for him. Seaton flew back to join the Eisenhower staff in Kansas City's Muehlebach Hotel. After an hour's conference, Ike's advisers decided that Ike should preface his forthcoming evening speech-on corruption in government-with Dick Nixon's formal statement...
Professionally, the other Marx Brothers haven't worn nearly so well. Harpo, once the rage of several continents, has just finished a series of television commercials for a milk company; Chico does his hoary piano routine and Eyetalian dialect around nightclubs; Gummo, who quit the act for good to become a World War I doughboy, is his brothers' agent Zeppo, now out of show business altogether, manufactures airplane parts...
...these wondrous virtues, spread in newspapers and on billboards and blared from radios and from a 17-car railroad caravan of patent medicine men and entertainers (e.g., Chico Marx, Mickey Rooney, Carmen Miranda) have made Hadacol the world's biggest selling "tonic." In four years-and on an investment of only $2,500-LeBlanc's sales have jumped from $75,000 to an estimated $25 million this year...
Alberto Giacometti looks like a tormented Chico Marx; he also sculps and paints with the bug-eyed fury of a Harpo, and creates things undreamed of even in Groucho's philosophy. His subject matter is the human frame; his approach to it destructive. Giacometti hacks, picks and pocks his plaster sculptures until they stand thin as reeds, then he generally smashes them. He saved just enough to make an exhibition in a Paris gallery last week...
Paul Richards has collected a fast, heavy-hitting club for his first year as Chicago manager. Shortstop Chico Carrasquel and rookie centerfielder Jim Busty are the only two regulars the White Sox brought into the majors. The rest of the team has been picked up one at a time. Eddie Robinson, the former Cleveland first baseman, has been with the club for two years...