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Faye begins his late-hour (11:30 p.m.), Sunday through Thursday inquisition by pointing to a pasteboard morgue and sneering adenoidally: "This is where I bury the people I don't like." As Chicagoans look on with mixed fascination and disgust, he proceeds to poke at the privacy and the professional talents of well-known figures in the popular-music industry, whether they are guests on the show or not. Some typical Faye autopsies: Eddie Fisher "sings with as much animation as a dead fish"; Elvis Presley is "a bouncing orangutan, a musical degenerate"; Tab Hunter's "squeak...
People who sweat out an ordinary, humdrum existence make up a world ever at war with "night people." This is the opinion advanced by a late-hour New Jersey disk jockey named Jean (after Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean) Shepherd, 33, whose burgeoning radio audience (estimated at 400,000) is largely a cult of Shepherd zealots...
...moved to deport her. This raised a fine legal point: Is Rose now an undesirable resident alien, perhaps to be deported as a U.S.-born woman without a country? If she beats a booting, a job awaits her at Ronceverte, West Virginia's radio station WRON, as a late-hour disk jockey...
...hard-shell fellow Baptists. First off, the Bessemer Baptist Association accused Folsom of "profaning a prayer." Kissin' Jim's reported praise to a parson: "That was a damned good Baptist prayer!" The governor was then accused by high drys of shamelessly grappling with John Barleycorn during a late-hour press conference. Alabama newsmen, not overly fond of Folsom, had gleefully reported that Kissin' Jim, brandishing a three-quarters-full highball glass, had told them that he didn't mind if they reported the presence of whisky in the room, and furthermore, that he was drinking some...
Yesterday, members of the 11-man Faculty Library Committee said they intend to study the late-hour question thoroughly at their first meeting late this month. Most of the members admitted they were unfamiliar with the problem and with the reasons behind Metcalf's statement, but expressed a desire to learn all the details...