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Another of Mattress' promising debutantes: Composer Mary Rodgers, daughter of famed Tunesmith Richard Rodgers. Reminiscent at times, her pleasantly fashioned score is never merely derivative. Veteran Broadway Director George Abbott sets a pace that is nimble without being frantic. Occasionally, Mattress' comic reach exceeds its grasp and good taste e.g., a scene in which the mute king tries to mime the facts of life for his son. But when the evil queen finally brings the fabled pea to her lips in a dice player's frenzied kiss, it is an unconscious reminder of how much...
...evening before he left for Europe, Herter made his first major speech as Secretary of State, a TV report to the nation on the purposes of the Geneva conference. He came across on the TV screens as a man with a grasp of his job, a clear view of its problems, and confidence in his ability to handle them...
...Democratic Senate passed it in four hours. Limiting debate had been on the calendar for nearly 30 years-and a Democratic Senate acted in three days. And it was a Democratic Senate that gave the nation the first civil rights bill in 82 years." Left to the audience to grasp for itself: leadership in each case was Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...average day Columnist Riddle will field 40 such calls from readers, whose questions are as encyclopedic in scope as Riddle's grasp of the subject. He is rarely stumped. Some samples...
...Broken Man." Said the Daily Herald: "Sick men can't rule the world . . . It is the West's tragedy that the President is NOT fit for service. At 68, America's wartime hero is a broken man, incapable of the energy required to grasp important matters for any length of time...