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Bedside Manners. Early last week the presidential plane, Columbine III, droned into the airstrip at Lowry Air Force Base with Defense Secretary Charles Wilson (see below), Admiral Arthur Radford and Milton Eisenhower, the President's brother. On the way to the hospital, Press Secretary James Hagerty briefed Wilson and Radford on proper bedside manners. Yes, it was perfectly all right to shake hands with the President. They should try to sit at the foot of the bed so that Ike could see them without moving his body. Their meeting should last no longer than 25 minutes, even though...
...about Milton Eisenhower...
...vice-presidential vote took an unexpected turn. Under Brazil's rules permitting ticket-splitting, hundreds of thousands of voters who decided for Candidate Barros also voted for Candidate Tavora's running mate, an able jurist named Milton Campos. At week's end Campos was so close behind Kubitschek's running mate, leftish João ("Jango") Goulart, that the contest was still in doubt...
Cardiff Giant. Sullivan started on TV in 1948. Where Milton Berle and Arthur Godfrey had their time of glory and then fell back exhausted, Ed has thrived and grown stronger in the heat of conflict. The battleground of TV is strewn with entertainers who could not quite stay the course-Red Buttons, Wally Cox, George Jessel, Ed Wynn, Ray Bolger, Bing Crosby. Sullivan is the first to admit that any one of these entertainers makes his own talents seem dim indeed. On camera, Ed has been likened to a cigar-store Indian, the Cardiff Giant and a stone-faced monument...
...beaten the NBC opposition 66 times and lost nine decisions. Seven of those nine defeats were administered by Martin & Lewis. "But we've handled big names before," says Ed confidently. "They threw Jimmy Durante at us first and when I overhauled him, they threw in Frank Sinatra and Milton Berle. We've always had tough competition...