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...good looks, Georgia's Senator Walter George for his voice, Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse for mental agility, Georgia's Senator Richard Russell for fairness, Washington's Senator Henry Jackson for enduring youth, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas for scholarly character, Alabama's Senator Lister Hill for hard work, Texas' Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for planning ability, Alabama's Representative Frank Boykin for handshaking, Coca-Cola's James J. Farley for his memory for names, Independence's Harry Truman for the common touch, Mrs. Richard Neuberger (wife of Oregon...
Many a managing editor worries more about his comic strips than his front page. Last week Philadelphia Bulletin Managing Editor Walter Lister gave the editors more to worry about. Said he: "Comics, once regarded as a specific for all circulation ills, are now the sick chicks of the newspaper business." The measure of a strip has long been 50% readership for a good comic, up to 80% for the best., e.g., Dick Tracy, Li'l Abner. But a recent survey in one major U.S. city showed that of 40 strips published, only 13 have 50% readership...
...reason, says Lister, is television, which has lured readers away from the newspapers' back pages. For example, in Dothan, Ala., which has no television reception, comic-strip readership is 68%; in Anniston, Ala., which can tune in on six TV stations, readership is down...
...national conference is scheduled to meet this fall to discuss the situation, but discussion will hardly rebuild dilapidated school building or provide classrooms for almost 700,000 children who now attend school only part-time. Expanded Federal aid for school building, as contained in a bill introduced by Senator Lister Hill, is the only realistic way to assure an adequate public school system...
...First Night. As Senators steeled themselves for the endurance test, cots were hauled out of Capitol storerooms and set up outside the Senate chamber. The filibusterers, led by Alabama Democrat Lister Hill, agreed to vote on the Anderson rider. It was voted down, 55 to 36. The talkers went right on talking. They refused to regard the vote as final. Cried Hill: "The lobbyists of the power trust have been swarming the corridors for days...