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Even more unlikely was genial Jim Hagerty's hopping-mad reaction to the column. Though Buchwald's jest was actually a spoof at the press (which took it as such, and laughed heartily), Press Secretary (and onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that...
...yeastiest dish on TV this season is served up about midnight every Tuesday when the Popocatepetl of party-givers, Elsa Maxwell, rises onstage at NBC's Tonight to barter inanities with cheeky, clef-chinned Jack Paar. To Elsa, Host Paar is "My King of Jest," and Jack calls Elsa "Queen of the Wild Frontier." "Elsa's not afraid to say what's on my mind," explains Paar as, with wide-eyed innocence, he eggs her on to gossip haphazardly about Perry Como ("He puts me to sleep"), Princess Grace of Monaco ("Awfully boring. That castle...
Turning from his serious discussion to jest with his audience for a moment, the witty British don cautioned his hearers not to worry about his statements about "standing room only by the year 5000." "By that time," he said, "a far worse fate will have overtaken all of us. The world will have been over-populated by big American automobiles...
FATE does not jest and events are not a matter of chance−there is no existence out of nothing. We cannot look at the map of the world without seeing our own place...
...Morgan Chairman Henry C. Alexander, who thinks FRB "was wrong only in not being more vigorous a little sooner," Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter and retiring New York Federal Reserve Bank President Allan Sproul, who tartly dismisses Automan Curtice's complaint as "a sort of cosmic jest." Detroit's difficulties, says Sproul, are a hangover from 1955's frantic sales race when too-easy credit skimmed the cream from 1956's auto market...