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...Face on the Screen. Early last week that coalition was busted wide open-and the unlikely Congressman who started the smashing was Roland V. Libonati, 62, a pudgy little machine Democrat from Chicago. Elected to the House in 1957, "Lib" Libonati has been known only for his devotion to the bidding of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley and as a master of the malapropism-he once welcomed autumn as the time when "the moss is on the pumpkin." Gingerly handling the prickly political pear that the civil rights bill had become, Manny Celler needed someone to make the necessary...
Libonati was happy to oblige, and all might have gone well-if Celler had kept his mouth shut and if Lib were not a televiewer. But Celler submitted to a television interview, Libonati caught the show, and did not like what he heard. Explained Libonati later...
...chairman. And he's telling 'em up there in his district that he's for a strong bill, and that he doesn't have anything to do with any motion to cut the bill down. So when I hear that, I says to myself, 'Lib, where are we at here, anyway?' And I think that if they're gonna get some Republican votes anyway, and if the chairman says he doesn't have anything to do with my motion, then certain representations that were made to me is out the window...
...Hope's tweeds. If Donald O'Connor wants to look like George M. Cohan, which for some reason he does, Sy cuts him a checkered vest. But he won't do just anything. He designed Liberace's first gold lame suit, but when the big Lib began demanding sequins for it, Sy sent him to a costume house...
...rather play Benny's living room than any theater on earth. Equally loyal to his TV staff, Benny hasn't hired a new writer for 14 years; he freely acknowledges his large debt to them, and when Fred Allen was once out-talking him in an ad-lib joust, he said testily that if only his writers were with him he could make Allen look silly...