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...Passel of Hatfields. Nobody in Seattle had to be told what the decision meant. As work on B-50s and Strato-cruisers ran out, the Boeing factories would probably become ghost shops. Last week when Air Secretary Stuart Symington dropped in on Seattle enroute to Alaska, the city's leading citizens closed in on him like a passel of Hatfields ambushing a lone McCoy...
...specialty. Some of his gags, even the most familiar ones, are run through the camera four or five times in rapid succession, giving the effect of a bad attack of hiccoughs, or a worn record turning in the same groove. To keep the gags rolling, he deploys a whole passel of comics, including Rudy Vallee, with pince-nez and purse-mouthed antics, Hugh Herbert as a butter-fingered doctor, and a couple of yowling hillbilly pinheads (Sterling Holloway and Danny Jackson). None of them is as funny as they were plainly meant...
Fresh from crushing defeats at the hands of Dartmouth, Army, Boston University, and Princeton, the Crimson J.V. football team will stumble into the claws of a passel of Brown bears this afternoon. The meeting will take place at 1:30 p.m. on Soldiers Field...
...primaries, Lyndon Johnson squeaked by former Governor Coke Stevenson. Stevenson promptly yelled "fraud," but his efforts to have Johnson's name lopped off the ballot were foiled by the U.S. Supreme Court. The former Governor then switched his support to the Republican, Porter, and he has undoubtedly taken a passel of old-line Democrats across the tracks with him. This "treachery," plus Democratic uneasiness over the President's civil rights program and the attractions of a straight Republican ticket, makes it quite possible that Porter will edge out Lyndon Johnson for the junior senatorship...
...Abbey Theatre has never stultified itself with a starring system; if it had, Fitzgerald and Sara Allgood would undoubtedly have been headliners. When the Players toured the U.S. in 1934, a passel of critics and actors gave Fitzgerald a scroll calling him "the most versatile character comedian in the world today." A lot of reputable people still refer to him, automatically, as the finest living actor...