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...doubt, it is the worst television program since Playhouse go did Kay Thompson's Eloise. It is certainly the phoniest city-room drama since The Front Page. "I went out," says the reporter hero (Nick Adams), "and I dug for it, and the deeper I dug the dirtier it got." Even the cutting is tabloid cheap. A man puts a gun at another's temple and prepares to fire. Fadeout...
Cambridge, according to Miss Sayre, is "stern and permanent," "dirtier than New York," and so influenced by "Dead Puritans" that it made the author continually feel guilty...
...forgiving soul, the reformed hussy determines to do good to the society that has done her wrong, but she soon discovers to her horror that politics is perceptibly dirtier than prostitution. The state is owned by a pawky old politician (Wilfrid Hyde White) who rules it with an iron hand-strongly magnetized to pick up loose change. When the new Governor tries to yank the old boy's hand out of the till, a bomb explodes in his car. While he is recovering, the missus serves as acting Governor, and by the time she is through acting, the rascals...
Lilacs bloom listlessly in the dooryards, and the fluid play of baseball is again at hand. Shrill raucous crics of encouragement and derision shatter the cool air above Fenway Park, unruly urchins hurl dirty oranges and even dirtier epithets at their adversaries. Only the umpire's stolid face, inflexible as Procrustes' bed, retains its wintry imperturbaility...
...against the G.O.P. has been overestimated. Anti-Catholic prejudice was looming bigger in the South and Midwest than Kennedy had expected. In New York, a nonprofit organization called the Fair Campaign Practices Com. mittee gloomily reported that it saw "a substantial danger that the campaign in 1960 will be dirtier on the religious issue than it was in 1928." With religion hurting Kennedy in Dixie, Republicans were headily predicting that Nixon would carry Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Texas and even North Carolina (see The South...