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...Kennedy by a wide electoral margin in 1960," predicted Max Lerner last night. The author and journalist who is currently professor of American Civilization at Brandeis told an agreeable overflow audience at the Ford Hall Forum that the popular vote may be close, but, because key states have similar issues and problems, the electoral vote will be overwhelmingly for the Massachusetts senator...
...only escape clause in Lerner's prediction was what he called "the incalculable religious issue," to which he would attribute an unlikely Kennedy loss...
Among other Lerner prognostications: A Democratic administration will shift the power in Congress away from conservative Southerners. A summit meeting will be held by March. Adlai Stevenson will be named United Nations Ambassador--"the perfect spot for him." There will be "rough sailing economically for whoever wins." "The United States will regain its prestige lost in the struggle of ideas and weapons with the Soviet Union...
MUSICALS: In an all-out attempt to recreate the box-office wonder of My Fair Lady, T. H. White's Arthurian novel The Once and Future King is being stage' tooled as Camelot. As with Fair Lady, Frederick Loewe is the composer, Alan Jay Lerner the book adapter and lyricist, Moss Hart the director, Julie Andrews one of the stars (Nov. 17). Irma la Douce, still running in Paris (nearly four years) and London (two years), and by far the most successful modern European musical, comes to Broadway still flavored with Parisian argot as it pursues the light...
...sideshow considerably brighter than the main attraction. Busy as a Kennedy, he appeared nightly on local television over station KHJ (the call letters, he said, stand for "Kennedy Hates Johnson"), nibbled petits fours and strawberries while matching attitudes with Senators, Governors, showfolk and intellectuals, including a bewildered Max Lerner. Sahl also did two shows a night at the Crescendo on Sunset Strip and managed to write at least one newspaper column each day, mainly for Hearst. First and still the best of the New Comedians whose specialty is topical humor, Mort Sahl, 33, is emerging as the most successful political...