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...Majority Leader Scott Lucas, "I learned that not much speed could be made by trying to make haste, and that we must let nature take its course in the Senate." Well, the Democrats had a 54-member majority in the Senate, didn't they, asked Indiana's Homer Capehart. Why didn't they get down to business instead of "playing politics, fooling the American people, and playing drop the handkerchief...
...thank the Senator for his invaluable contribution," snapped Lucas. But if it got down to cases, he wanted to point out that the Republicans had used up 57% of the debating time, not counting the Republican-abetted filibuster of the Southern Democrats over civil rights. Michigan's Homer Ferguson produced some figures to shift the blame right back to the Democrats. As he had it, the Republicans had used up only 1,563 and one-ninth pages of the Record; Democrats had used 1,612 and four-ninths...
...single insects, published about the time of World War I. This week the publication of The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre (Edited by Edwin Way Teale; Dodd, Mead, $3.50) gave English-speaking readers their first full view of the patient Provengal scientist whom Victor Hugo called "The Homer of the Insects...
...last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue as a book...
...raiding CBS) launched a female counterattack with The Ethel Merman Show (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.). The program's tenuous story line has dark, bouncy, 41-year-old Ethel Merman, ably assisted by ex-Juvenile Star Leon Janney, trying to sell a new revue to a somnolent backer-Homer Tubbs, the Syracuse floor-mop king...