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...more and more often with such Administration conservatives as Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Budget Director Joseph Dodge, who thought his suggestions sometimes too expensive, and Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., who frequently thought them too bold. In 1955 Rockefeller quit Washington, went home to New York. Friends are certain that somewhere along in here he resolved to try for office himself. "He felt," said a friend, "he had to run for elective office, because nobody really paid any attention to someone who was only an appointee...
...knew all along the Republican-controlled legislature would tear to shreds. When the legislature did-and also overrode Docking's veto of a sales tax increase to make up a predicted $15 million deficit-Docking emerged, in some minds at least, as the little taxpayer's frustrated friend. But Republicans are making hay with the fact that the ill-smelling Teamsters plopped $3,500 into his 1956 campaign hopper-a fact which Docking first clumsily denied and then admitted. And in crucial Sedgwick County, the local Democrats are in bad repute (Wichita, pop. 260,000) over recent scandals...
...Gladstone Gander and Donald Duck. Donald is the hero of the play the "patate" (helpfully defined in the program as "schmoe; patsy; fall guy.") It turns out, however, that his primary concern for several decades has been to nourish vengeful, bitter (and, admittedly, not unjustified) hatreds against his rich "friend," meanwhile nourishing himself by borrowing the friend's money. The patate is presented as a sweet guy, but in spite of the fact that he really is a patate, he is quite evidently more interested in doing dirt to ol' Gladstone than in doing good to any-body...
...situation may be unlikely penology and ponderous allegory, but it is dramatic as can be, and could have made for a memorable film. But our old friend Stanley Kramer got hold of this and decided to hit the great American public between the eyes. He made sure that every scene was underlined as firmly as possible. He managed, perhaps with difficulty, to secure Tony Curtis for the lead. While he did not spoil The Defiant Ones, he cheapened...
...very well--and so it could hardly be the morning-after reminiscence. And a few annoying lapses into nicely written stream-of-consciousness, or whatever they're calling it these days, gives Louis credit for an imagination he doesn't have. And in relating a macabre story of a friend, Vera, the girl, says "he grinned and wandered off," which is one grin we doubt ever got grinned, as they say. But these quibbles are morning-after quibbles which any quick blue pencil could crunch...