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When a heckler interrupted Scully on a point of order, Scully snarled: "Sit down, you mug!" The heckler kept clamoring. Scully calmly eased himself to within a few feet of him, hoisted up his right crutch and whacked him on the shoulder. That about ended the meeting. The committeemen agreed that they would support the regular Democratic nominees after the state's primary on June 1. But until then, Wallace supporters were free to wreak whatever havoc they could...
Paar attracted attention with his summer show despite its low rating. In big-time radio this fall, attention will be harder to get. But Paar is confident. "I will not mug. No, I will not mug," he cries. "Way out in left field, that's where my humor really lies. I'm new and I'm good. And I represent true radio as against the false radio we have been getting from the vaudeville comics. . . . Me and Henry Morgan and a few others . . . we're the future...
...Among the backers of Bricett (who failed to finish): the Reverend J. S. Clarke, vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Plymouth, who advised his congregation to put a bob (no more) on the race. He added: "Though betting is a mug's game, to say that he who puts a shilling on the National is morally wrong is probably not true." Suggested the U.S. magazine The Blood-Horse: why doesn't Parson Clarke call his next sermon "Blessed Are the Pacemakers...
...addition to the northerly march of the realizing Eli beer-mug jugglers, two formal dances at Winthrop and Eliot Houses are planned for Friday night. Cambridge environs will be graced on Saturday night with four informal dances at Leverett, Kirkland, Lowell, and Dunster. Tickets for these affairs are on sale again tonight in the Junior Common Room of every House...
There was Winston Churchill, dumpy, "mostly stomach," a cigar stuck in his "large, round mug." There was Franklin D. Roosevelt, jaunty in a dinner jacket, "vivid and agile." And there was onetime Slovene immigrant Louis Adamic. earnest, slow-spoken author of The Native's Return and other books. Adamic was all eyes, all ears...