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...asked him whether he knew the story of the wren and the mole, or of the grass-hopper who fell in love with a water-lilly, or of why the little men in the grass are unable to eat barley? Thrice, he replied...
...against Dodd and Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long), the Senate code, drawn up under the auspices of Mississippi's John Stennis, had at least one easily discernible merit: it was much more sin ewy than a bare-bones code dropped almost casually into the House of Representatives' hopper a day earlier...
...feuds have cooled too. Gone are the days, he says, when he dismissed Walter Winchell as "a cringing coward" and Hedda Hopper as "downright illiterate" for printing "garbage" about celebrities; during his frequent clashes over the pirating of talent, he put down Steve Allen and his manager as "two punks" and squelched Arthur Godfrey with the line, "By the way, what does he do now?" (He hosts a CBS Radio morning show.) During a contract dispute with Frank Sinatra some years ago, Sullivan took a full-page ad in Variety to lambaste the singer for "false and reckless charges"; Frankie...
Conjugal visiting is fairly widespread in Latin America. But Hopper thinks that Parchman will probably remain the only prison in the U.S. to permit it. Even the experiment-minded U.S. Bureau of Prisons opposes the idea, contending that far less than half of the nation's 19,500 federal prisoners have viable marriages that conjugal visits could save, and that such a privilege would only antagonize the havenots...
...change. Mother of God, there is a set change. Director Babe cast his show expertly and then he cose a designer. As some kind of answer to Chicago's Picasso, quondam director Timothy Mayer has burst upon the world of set design with his impression of a giant grass-hopper with muscular dystrophy. It is supposed to be a cage of pipe that with the help of movable clothes racks and imaginative props can smoothly transform itself into the show's nine sets. The rearrangement of schematic sets by openly visible stagehands is a standard cliche of modern direction, especially...