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...were made to obscure Hackler's own Texas background. L.B.J. was growing sensitive to the observations that Texas people, Texas clothes, Texas food and Texas language were inundating the capital, and so Hackler was listed as being from Oklahoma. It took U.P.I.'s wily White House correspondent, Merriman Smith, to penetrate the ruse by asking: "When did he move to Texas...
...actual tapes today are unknown), they do shed fascinating light on his opinions of Nixon and the game of politics. Eisenhower pointedly omitted Nixon's name when discussing those he considered good future Republican presidential material. And in a late 1954 conversation with U.P.I. White House Correspondent Merriman Smith, Ike complained that the worst part of his job was ''accommodating yourself to values and considerations that fundamentally you can't fully accept...
...Steve Merriman Trio and Frank Wilkins Quartet--All Saint's Church, Belmont...
...stride. The hotel provides a center for succeeding episodes, and a staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally answers. Christopher Cazenove lends his Arrow-shirt ad good looks as Charlie...
...guise of seriousness: a man's name takes on more significance than his character, a good profile is equated with good principles and the allocation of food--in this case, muffins and cucumber sandwiches--becomes a major social issue. It is therefore not totally inappropriate that in this production Merriman, the manservant, should get the biggest laughs of the night by doing a pretty fair imitation of Lurch from The Addams Family. But it certainly doesn't speak well for the rest of the Leverett House cast, who have at their disposal among the funniest lines, scenes and characters ever...