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...some 17,000 names were carefully set down by Hague's 311 district leaders, with appropriate comments by gumshoeing ward heelers. The name of every city, state and county employee was underlined in red ink. Devoted Democrats on the approved list were ticked off with a terse "O.K." Waverers were put on the list for attention: "Need tax reduction here when, possible." But anyone rash enough to buck the machine got more extensive treatment...
...that many of the individual scenes aren't funny. Chief among these is a takeoff of the Ink Spots in which Kaye sings all four parts in different voice ranges and in four separate bodies at the same time...
Charlie Murphy arrived in Washington 15 years ago with the ink on his law degree still fresh. He went to work in the Senate legislative counsel's office writing bills in proper legal language. One of his chores was the resolution creating Senator Truman's wartime investigating committee. Some time after Mr. Truman became President, he remembered Charlie Murphy and took him into the White House as one of a dozen devotedly anonymous aides. Murphy was so anonymous that the White House Correspondents Association completely overlooked him last year when they issued invitations to the annual dinner...
...Hilton Hotels Corp.). When the depression hit, and an estimated 80% of all U.S. hotels went bankrupt, he was far overexpanded. He hurried from hotel to hotel, yanking out the room telephones and closing off some of the floors to cut costs. When a guest asked for ink, a bellhop would ceremoniously pour out enough to write one letter...
...careful drinker, broke a rule and got tipsy enough to start squirting champagne at his players. They grabbed bottles and began squirting back. When one woman got her dress spoiled Veeck ordered: "Buy her a new $250 one." After 20 cases of champagne and ten cases of bubble ink were gone, he took a look at his wine-soaked ballplayers and ordered new suits for them all. "Greatest guy in the world," everybody said...