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...humid midsummer night in Washington. The city slept as best it could. On Capitol Hill, the great dome glowed above an empty plaza. But in its nearly empty chamber, the U.S. Senate was still in session-of a sort. Rhode Island's Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell, acting as presiding officer, nodded in the chair; Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey and Republican Whip Tom Kuchel slumped at their desks, staring trancelike at nothing. And from his back-row desk, Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire talked and talked and talked, pausing only to sip butterscotch-flavored Metrecal...
Died. Herbert Claiborne Pell, 77, pince-nezed bibliophile descendant of Louisiana's first state Governor and father of Rhode Island's Junior Senator Claiborne Pell, a onetime Congressman himself (1919-21) and New York State Democratic Committee chairman (1921-26), who was tapped by his Harvard contemporary, Franklin Roosevelt, for two diplomatic posts (minister to Portugal, then Hungary) and as U.S. member of the U.N. Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes; on a Munich street, while escorting his grandson on a grand tour. In 1945, after urging the indictment of the entire Nazi Gestapo, Pell proved more...
Please Turn Over (Peter Rogers; Columbia) carries on the pell-mell misadventures of the producer-director team and some of the players responsible for the success of the British Carry On farces (Carry On Nurse, Doctor, etc.). There was really no need to change the title, unless the producers wanted to capitalize on its suggestiveness; this one could just as well have been called Carry On Suburbia. A teen-age girl, charmingly played by Julia Lockwood (daughter of Actress Margaret), writes a scandalous bestseller called Naked Revolt, and the whole town plays the guessing game of matching members...
...toothless version of the beast that terrorized the bottom of the Ivy League last season, but it wears a foolish grin as a result of its 5-3 record and third place ranking. Despite the loss of the league-leading line of last season--John McBride, John Pell and Pete Cook--Princeton already has posted its best Ivy record since...
Combining political savvy and a quick sense of humor, Herbert Claiborne Pell, retired states-man and party manager, is a master at the aside--in a stage whisper. To sit next to him is the only way to catch the whole show. His asides presented a description of the political fever that is apparently catching in the Pell family...