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...turned out, last week's primary gave Arnall a 45,000-vote margin over his closest rival. His showing was all the more remarkable because in the county courthouses, which still pay fealty to Ol' Gene's son Herman, he is unfondly remembered as the "boy wonder" Governor who hobbled the Talmadge machine, abolished the state's poll tax, and established a merit system for state employees...
MAME (Columbia). The Broadway season's biggest musical hit has spawned a surefire original-cast recording. Jerry Herman's score repeats his Hello, Dolly! success, this time with Angela Lansbury instead of Carol Channing. The title song contains its own review: "You charm the husk right off of the corn...
Better than Koufax or not, Juan Marichal without question 1) has the best right arm in baseball, and 2) is the most complete pitcher in the game today, or any other day. "No man has the assortment of pitches Juan has," says Giants Manager Herman Franks -and there is a consensus about that. "Koufax has two pitches-a fastball and a curve," says St. Louis Outfielder Mike Shannon. "They're the two best pitches in the league. But Marichal has more. He has four or five-and he can control them all." Shannon hasn't seen the half...
...taught Moscow how easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets for years. The steam has gone out of their world revolution...
...season's last show and best musical-scant praise this year. The assault of amplified sound is so steady that if Van Gogh could hear it he would cut off his other ear. Yet the score is not unappealing. The title song and Act I finale is Jerry Herman's lucky bid to match his Hello, Dolly! number; the opening-night audience swamped it in applause the moment it began...