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Hecht's first half-hour show, a tale about "the big heart of Broadway" coming to the rescue of a young couple from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was as loaded with corny sentiment as with talk. Says Author Hecht: "We had to make the first one very sentimental because we used it to sell the sponsor [Willys Motors]." His second show last week was on the more Hechtian subject of hate; it told how a woman who has spent ten years in jail for shooting the other woman in a domestic triangle completes the job by plugging her husband...
...best-studied patients in the world," a victim of prostate cancer may have to agree to a routine in which his body wastes are collected for as long as three weeks, the enzyme content of his blood is checked each day, his blood pressure taken as often as every half-hour, and he may be dunked into a pool now and then to gauge the water content of his body. Some arthritis patients with a stubborn type of anemia will give blood which will be made radioactive before it is put back into their systems; thus the researchers can test...
During the preliminaries of the struggle over extending the excess-profits tax. House Speaker Joe Martin outlined the problem in one sentence. Emerging from a half-hour meeting in which he tried to get support for EPT extension from New York's old (77) Dan Reed, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, Martin reported, in characteristic good humor: "We were only one word apart-he said 'no' and I said 'yes.' " Last week the one-word distinction caught House Republicans in a party-rending conflict between Dan Reed's belief in precedent and principle...
Butchered News. Red opens his half-hour radio show by playing one of a variety of roles: either he is Louella Blanchard retailing gossip or Lowell Blanchard butchering the news; sometimes he is a hayseed called Barefoot Bogardus or a private eye known as The Flat Man ("I'm 9 ft. 12 in. tall and weigh 67 Ibs. When I stand sideways I disappear."). But the big deal in the show comes when Red takes his "raving microphone" and interviews his hepcat audience against a background of teen-age screams. Most of his fans identify themselves with Blanchardisms...
...point in the half-hour testimony, Sen. Jenner (R-Ind.) asked her, "Did you tell the Harvard Corporation you were not and never have been a member of the Communist Party...