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...Senator Margaret Chase Smith has been seen on Edward R. Murrow's television program as she traipsed around the globe-e.g., to Formosa, India, Spain. A pixy TV program called Masquerade Party has achieved a clown's gallery of Senators, e.g., Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart came with a Roman toga draped around his aldermanic figure, South Dakota's Republican Senator Karl Mundt and his wife appeared as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, Alabama's Democratic Senator John Sparkman (his party's 1952 nominee for Vice President) showed up disguised...
...song listener, In past years, in my own youth, it was sufficient to tap a foot or a finger and perhaps nod the head in time to the music when listening to ballads and such. Rhythm has always supplied a basic human need since that greatest of all songsters, Homer. Somewhere along the line, however, a queerly shaped instrument called "saxophone" came into being. By blowing one's breath into the smaller aperture of said instrument, thence through a wood or plastic sliver called a "reed," it is possible to make a most magnificent array of nearly organic sounds. Probably...
...business. NBC's American Inventory gave an upbeat plug to the stock market in a playlet about the joys of being a small investor, while on Youth Wants to Know. Arkansas' Senator William Fulbright (see BUSINESS) deplored the market's excesses. Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart got in the act by appearing on Walter Winchell's ABC telecast for the express purpose of asking Winchell some friendly questions about his broadcast stock tips. Unfortunately, the Senator began by answering questions instead of asking them, and whenever he seemed likely to get in stride, was forced...
Humphrey was joined by Indiana's Republican Homer Capehart, who had been needling Fulbright from the beginning. Said Capehart: "The series of questions that we have had in this committee have all tended to be on the negative side, [and have tended] to prove that stock prices are too high and that maybe we are just a few steps behind a crash such as we had in 1929." Said Fulbright: "It is very inappropriate to engage in bickering with you before this audience." Replied Capehart: "You started it ... You . . . stick to your knitting and ask [your] questions." Fulbright flushed...
Adlai E. Stevenson yesterday came to the support of John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics, in his verbal battle with Sen. Homer E. Capehart...