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...Happy Warrior." It's about time someone dispelled the popular belief that Governor Smith's Roman Catholicism alone caused his defeat. I agree wholeheartedly that no Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt included, could have won over Hoover. The Republican Party at the time was riding the crest of the prosperity wave which would have swamped any opposition...
...popularity since his death, Mark Twain is now on the crest of a revival that is spreading fast through show business and publishing. M-G-M is about to release a wide-screen version of Huckleberry Finn (with Eddie Hodges as Huck and Pugilist Archie Moore as Jim). Before season's end a total of four major TV shows will have documented or dramatized various parts of the writer's life. From Cambridge, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif., presses have been rolling out books on Twain. Actor Hal Holbrook has already given more than 1,200 performances...
Time Past. Unlike Tancredi, the prince is too proud, too much the unbending leopard on his own family crest, to be able to lick his wounds by joining those who inflict them. In the mid-span of his life he courts oblivion ("While there's death there's hope"), and measures out the ''sediment of grief which, accumulating day by day, would in the end be the real cause of his death...
...Donner's memory reaches full crest, a whole town passes in review-the poor, the well to do, the occasional suicide or murderer, the eccentric, and underneath all, a solid support of hard work, kindliness, Pennsylvania Dutch stubbornness and no-nonsense Lutheranism. Now Don ner knows that he loved all this. To the love for his mother, the constant in his life, is now added an insight far different from and more imaginative than the anti-daddy theme so often at the heart of current fiction: "That all those disturbing things seen and felt in the father, which...
Many comedians are prolific brand-name droppers. Gagged Bob Hope recently: "The NBC peacock is really a plucked pigeon with a Clairol rinse." Jerry Lewis punched out a joke with the tag line, "Look, Mom, no cavities!"-which happens to be a slogan of Crest toothpaste. Steve Allen built a skit around Colgate's toothpaste ingredient, Gardol, and the Three Stooges built an act around Polaroid cameras. On NBC's Ford Startime fortnight ago, Dean Martin greeted Guest Frank Sinatra with a cheery "What's this you're wearing-My Sin?" And on a Crosby-Sinatra...