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...wore on, the filibusterers began to hint that they had had their fun and would fold up their cots this week. Gore, looking fresh as ever, admitted that his fight "is now one of hopeless odds." Toward evening Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had been conspicuously silent, proposed that all agree to a limitation of debate. Characteristically, Morse objected. Nevertheless, with Johnson telling his Democrats that it was time to show some sense of responsibility, the filibustered were not likely to hold out much longer. Bill Knowland, clearly frazzled but somewhat encouraged, decided to let the Senators take Sunday...
Owner Bray figures that if he does not cut corners sharply, the alternative is to fold up the club. He is not impressed by bush-league owners who operate with a more lavish hand. "They're going after this thing like they were major-leaguers-chartering big buses, staying in good hotels, hiring a lot of help," says...
...Freeman, fortnightly opinion journal of the far right, has been going downhill ever since its founders fell out more than a year ago (TIME, Jan. 26, 1953). After hitting a peak of almost 22,000, circulation slipped, and a few weeks ago the Freeman was about ready to fold. Last week it had some fresh help. It was taken over by the Foundation for Economic Education, a nonprofit organization, which has turned it into a monthly. The magazine also had a new editor: Frank Chodorov, 67, director from 1936 to 1941 of the Henry George School of Social Science...
...spent his evenings at the Café Certá talking with Breton, Arp. De Chirico and Léger and making composite drawings that they called "exquisite corpses." This was actually an old parlor game. One artist would draw a head, fold the paper and pass it on to the next man, who would draw the body without seeing what had already been done. "We used to fabricate all sorts of monsters." says...
...picturesque way of tipping. In a restaurant he will fold a five-dollar bill into a tiny ball of paper and hand it to the headwaiter with the suggestion: "Here, put that in yore holler tooth." Guesses about his fortune vary. One friend estimates it at around...