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Unscratched Itch. Republican committee members were just itching to question Jenkins-but the Democrats refused to scratch. "It wasn't necessary to call Jenkins," insisted North Carolina's Democratic Senator B. Everett Jordan, the Rules Committee chairman. "We had his affidavit. There's no conflict. There's nothing to get excited about...
Some months ago, during one of his periodic fund-raising drives for Monocle, a quarterly magazine of political satire, Editor Victor Navasky, 31, put the arm on Playwright George (The Seven Year Itch) Axelrod in Hollywood. Axelrod allowed that he could comfortably spare $12,000 for the cause, but he refused to part with anything but advice. "Satirists should starve," said he. In seven years of publishing Monocle, Editor Navasky has learned that starving is just about all contemporary satirists...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:07 p.m.). The Seven Year Itch, with Tom Ewell and Marilyn Monroe-one of MM's best roles...
...serious aspirations (no date set). Chester Morris and Signe Hasso are in something called The Tender Heel-about a modern Achilles, of course, set in a Florida fishing village (Oct. 21). Man on Ice confronts an anthropologist with a Neanderthal in a cave. Director John Gerstad (The Seven Year Itch) has yet to pick an actor for either role, but the latter should be a snap (February). One half-cast comedy is The Owl and the Pussycat, by Wilton Manhoff. The pussycat goes in for acting, modeling and prostitution. A snoopy neighbor reports her to the police. Pussycat seeks...
...will be the hottest year in history for the 20-company U.S. air-conditioning industry. Helped by an early and muggy summer, a nationwide building surge and the U.S. consumer's healthy buying itch, sales this year will top $1.6 billion. Air conditioning is being built into virtually all the U.S.'s new office skyscrapers, hotels and hospitals, well over half of its tall new apartments, 40% of its factories, 17% of its houses and 8.5% of its schools...