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...Shook the hand of plump Elizabeth Hess, 13, the national spelling champion, and confessed that, as a small boy he had been spelled down on "syzygy." The President further obliged Elizabeth with a definition: "Having to do with the orbit of the moon" (pretty close to Webster's "The point of an orbit, as of the moon, at which the planet is in conjunction or opposition...
...Grey-Eyed People (by John D. Hess) was a two-tone play whose colors brutally clashed. It told of a suburban individualist who staged a hot-tempered crusade on behalf of a former Communist who ran afoul of the community. Part of the time the author-a veteran TV writer-seemed concerned with a pressing contemporary situation. The rest of the time he merely seemed concerned with what it could yield in laughs...
...right farcical commotion for a different kind of play, and in Walter Matthau he had an engaging leading man. But the play, which closed at week's end after five performances, was far from expert on its own terms, and its terms were a little shabby anyhow. Playwright Hess seemed to have chosen his theme for no better reason than that it is in the air right now, and to have handled it as though it were going...
This week Jarrell gave the company another hearty boost. Old Republic made a deal with Hess Bros, of Allentown, Pa. .to offer policies to its customers on all installment buying, among the first such plans in department-store history. The cost: $1 to $3.20 a year for every $100 of installment credit insured. If the insured dies or is injured so he can't pay, Old Republic will. It also plans to start selling similar installment credit-buying policies in stores throughout...
Just threw down the disgusting, biased and contrary-to-fact telegram by H. Keith Thompson protesting TIME'S reference to Herr Hess, Doenitz, Raeder, Speer, Funk and Von Schirach as the "Seven Blackest Nazis." Congratulations, TIME, on keeping the record straight. For one, I urgently protest the tenor of Thompson's protest. As a matter of fact, I protest having to protest the protest...