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...Ginnes and Ira Wallach) is one of those titles that proclaim something farcical while not guaranteeing anything funny. The play is indeed an anything-goes sort of script, and all too much of it goes awry. Perhaps the producers decided not to fret over the script, thinking that the nub of Drink lay in the staging, in what that master of accelerating insanity, George Abbott, could pipe into a yarn of careening drunkenness. Director Abbott and his downer of Scotch, Tom Poston, constitute the brighter side of the occasion. But Drink to Me Only is not an occasion...
...life before she met Joe, she says: "I just dreamed along like a big blob of sleep." Now she regards her Joe as her personal God. After she discovers, in a grotesque episode of peeping tomfoolery, that her husband is not God after all, the novel reaches its nub with the mating of the two nothings-Rennie and Horner...
Then Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov, 55, new U.S.S.R. Ambassador to the U.S. and first U.S.S.R. ambassador to address the Press Club since Litvinov did it in 1941, got down to the nub of his mission. "If our countries not only normalize their relations but start to live in friendship, their combined efforts will help to clear the atmosphere on our whole planet." The gimmick: a parley at the summit. "The very fact of convening such a conference will have a beneficial influence...
...spokesman." Now that Singer Garland is suing CBS for $1,000,000 for those remarks, her lawyers need to know−and the Trib will not say&8722;who the spokesman was. Nowhere in its ten-column coverage did the paper report what the CBS spokesman said. The nub of his remarks: Judy "won't make up her mind about anything. We just think she doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly...
...Gets It & When. These disquieting facts emerged last week from a conference on flu and vaccination prospects sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service. Nub of the problem: the U.S. population has no immunity against this new mutant strain (TIME, June 24), can gain immunity only from contracting the disease itself or from preventive inoculation with a new vaccine prepared especially to combat it. Despite the best efforts of medical men and vaccine manufacturers around the world, there will not be time enough to immunize more than a fraction of the U.S. population before the disease strikes in force...