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While Actress Channing is a happily blown-up Lorelei, the script is a sadly watered-down Blondes; and the score is almost everywhere commonplace. Lorelei's less rapacious pal Dorothy (Yvonne Adair), after having all the life knocked out of her in the script, takes up a lot of dull romantic room in the show. And Dancer Anita Alvarez, who is always good for an eccentric specialty or two, is foolishly converted into a standby...
Lewis seemed agreeably surprised, too, at this helpful gesture from Harry Truman, who has no more use for John L. than John L. has for him. White House aides had an explanation that accounted for the politics involved, if not the economics: the President, as the avowed pal of labor, was not going to get rough with labor or even with John L.-if he could possibly squeak by without doing...
...Death is a pal...
...bill to revise the Displaced Persons law is having a rough time. After passing the House by an overwhelming voice vote on June 2, it was submerged in Senator Pat McCarran's Judiciary Committee until a fortnight ago, when it was exhumed while McCarran was off visiting his pal, Generalissimo Franco. Once on the Senate floor, it ran into a filibuster by Senator Cain, which broke up only when a motion for recommittal was passed by 36 to 30 with 30 absentees. The bill was sent back to languish under McCarran's loving care, at least until next January...
Brownie was a pal of the sheriff. The papers, on the other hand, were after him hot & heavy. So were a lot of the citizenry. In fact a bipartisan committee headed by Admiral Thomas L. Gatch, the retired Pacific war hero, was trying to kick the sheriff, diamond-studded badge and all, out of office by way of a recall election...