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...could get along with the Republican legislators. He knew them well-as senate minority leader and as Williams' lieutenant governor presiding over the chamber-and he had always been on friendly personal terms with them. Skinning into office by 4,000 votes, Swainson at first tried playing pal with the legislative Republicans. He got nowhere. This year he turned tough, tried to ram through a fiscal reform program that included a 3% income tax. He still got nowhere. In the past fiscal year, Michigan's deficit increased by $13.9 million, to $85.6 million...
...Outside my window about a quarter of a mile to the west there stands a little yellow house, with a green paling, and a crowd of people pulling it all down. It is the house of the great train-robber and murderer, Jesse James, who was shot by his pal last week, and the people are relic-hunters. The Americans are certainly great hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes...
...James McShane have made news before. In 1954, as a New York police detective, he was temporarily demoted for getting his picture in the papers holding an umbrella over the head of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (McShane was off duty at the time and Marciano was an old pal). McShane also had the misfortune, as chief marshal, of being assigned to bring the late spy Robert Soblen back to the U.S. from Israel; as the plane approached London, Soblen took advantage of McShane's momentary absence to stab himself (TIME, July...
Warwick, R.I., Musical Theater: Steve Lawrence as the soulless heel in Pal Joey...
...Miss Lynn and the chorus and dancers offers one of the most hilarious and telling parodies of the conventions of romantic operetta that one is ever likely to see. It also serves to illustrate the sometimes very great distance between the romantic and the realistic forms in musical comedy. Pal Joey treats important problems with taste and even wisdom that one rarely finds in musical comedy. For this reason, the certainly very acceptable production at Framingham offers viewers a chance to investigate again the richness of this finest of the Rodgers and Hart scores...