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...antipathies in U. S. politics have been so significant as that between the present U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, who looks homespun in a marble office, and the present Supreme Court of the U. S., whose Chief Justice would look Jovian in a rumble seat. They tangled from the beginning of the Great Court Battle, when Henry Agard Wallace charged that in ordering the return of $200,000,000 of AAA's invalidated processing taxes, the Supreme Court had authorized "the greatest legal steal in history." Since then the Court has come to terms with most of the organic...
...curtains at Manhattan's Shubert Theatre parted this week to disclose two apparently naked gods reclining on a cloud, their bare bottoms perked toward the heavens, their amorous gaze fixed on the somewhat startled audience. The bare bottoms were moulded of impersonal papier-mache, but the silver-bearded Jovian head on the left was unmistakably that of Alfred Lunt. Theatre Guild subscribers, present for the Manhattan opening of Amphitryon 38, settled back expectantly in their seats. They realized that Jupiter Lunt's eyes were not feasting on them but on the earthly abode of Alcmena Fontanne. And they...
What first-nighters found they had paid for was a comedy written with a stylish stylus, a mort of Jovian musing, some heavy-handed Olympian plotting-and the Lunts. Just as all but the extremely myopic soon discovered that the display of buttockry in the startling opening set was a plaster hoax, so none but the most zealous Lunt-Fontanne champions found Amphitryon 38 the perfect play...
...Commandments and ignore the rest. Correspondents guffawed at that one. Chuckling, the President went on to relate how an irreverent friend of his had remarked that the League's two commandments were "love thy God and forget thy neighbor" ? "God" being interpreted by the League as "property." Jovian laughter echoed through the Blue Room...
Pondering these facts, jovian Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association last week was moved to wrath. At two phrases which lately began appearing on the wrappers of Smith Brothers' cough drops and cough syrup he cast a three-column edi torial bolt, gist of which lay in two words. Smith Brothers' phrases were: "Contains Primary VITAMIN A. THE 'ANTI-INFECTIVE' VITAMIN." Editor Fishbein's two words: "meretricious quackery...