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...Columbians and Shriners gathered for what one ecumenical enthusiast called "a real bash." And in Hartford, Conn., the Knights have joined with the Masons and B'nai B'rith to form a brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt, national head of the Catholic organization: "It's high time for the dissipation of any recriminations, disaffections or petty jealousies that may have formed a barrier be tween the Knights of Columbus and the Masonic Order...
Dodger pitching last year came up with a woeful 4.47 ERA last season and it has not been noticeably improved. The staff could be a surprise if Johnny Podres stays well and Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, and Danny McDevitt live up to their press notices...
...think so. They are well aware that companies are deep in politics, through lobbying and individual contributions to candidates. Union leaders admit that companies have every right to comment openly, take basic issues right to the people just as unions themselves have done for years. Says Co-Director Jim McDevitt of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee on Political Education: "There's nothing wrong if a company tries to get its executives to promote its candidates-providing there's no coercion, and a man's job is not put in jeopardy...
...whose life in the Pentagon is made miserable by "the damned ole Senate, epitomizes this comic versatility. He delivers everything from vaudeville gags to a farcical high school oration, and is so unabashed a comedian that he laughts at his own material. The audience does too, of course. Ruth McDevitt plays Mrs. Laura Partridge, the ex-actress who attends a stock-holders meeting on the advice of her horoscope and ends up controlling the corporation, with a perfectly-timed juxtaposition of naivete and shrewdness...
This tale led to the revelation of an eminently novel twist. Investigation proved that neither H. A. McDevitt nor J. H. McKeown had ever existed except in Schlekat's imagination: he had stolen the bank's money to buy the bank...