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...Commodore Perry Hotel, Adlai Stevenson spent 35 minutes closeted with senior Texas Democrat and House Speaker Sam Rayburn. That night, at the university, Stevenson's subject was "America, the Economic Colossus." Stevenson had some doubts about the colossus. Said he: "I am not a prophet of gloom. I am not a prophet of any kind whatever. Nonetheless, I groaned the other day when a leading politician said with glee, 'Everything is booming but the guns.' I wish people would take less interest in booms and more in stability-in making good conditions last...
...There is the boy-meets-girl formula, and then there is crime-doesn't-pay. The public will revolt -this is what happened to motion pictures." Coe this week begins his new NBC series, Playwrights Hour, with scripts by Chayefsky, Philip Wylie, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. His gloom may be deepened by the fact that his show will run opposite The $64,000 Question during its last half-hour...
...Wall Street the gloom hung thicker than London fog. Most knew that the specialists had bought all they could-stretching their financial resources close to the breaking point. Brokers felt that if Ike had taken a turn for the worse on Monday, many a specialist would have gone under...
...national progress and reassurance had come to be symbolized by Eisenhower that there was real danger that the prospect of his retirement would pull the linchpin of trust. No man in either U.S. party approaches him in stature. His own party, last week so confident, was plunged in gloom by the prospect of fighting the 1956 campaign without...
...press conference, Benson said: "I assure you, I have not been amused by some of the old efforts that are being made to make a political football out of the farm situation. I feel very firmly that agriculture is basically sound today, in spite of the prophets of gloom...