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Thus continued the absurd ironies occasioned by the broadcasting strike that began two weeks ago: on the inside, a thin, red-eyed line of executives and management staffers making like performers; on the outside, the well-clad picket line of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, proving by their absence that radio and TV could use a change of face once in a while...
Protest Letter. The strike meanwhile precipitated some more moral wrestling among newsmakers and newsmen. Dean Rusk and Kenneth Galbraith, new head of the Americans for Democratic Action, discreetly canceled scheduled appearances on public-affairs shows, while Senator Wayne Morse passed through the AFTRA picket line to go on ABC's Scope. Bennett Cerf, who is both a union member (panelist on What's My Line?) and a management man (board member of RCA), elected, of course, not to picket...
Ransom Stoddard, a young Eastern lawyer traveling West on Horace Greeley's advice, is in the stagecoach held up just outside of Shinbone by Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin), "the toughest man south of the Picket Wire." Trying to defend a woman passenger, Stoddard is beaten by Valance, left for dead, and brought to town by Tom Doniphon. Stoddard's first instinct is to demand the arrest of Liberty Valance; Doniphon tells him that law books mean nothing out West, that if Stoddard wants to take Valance, he'd better start carrying a hand...
What's a nice girl like her doing in a place like the theater, anyway? Why isn't she out in the fresh air on an apple-cheeked picket line? As a playwright, Miss Garson is still much closer to Berkeley than Broadway. In trying to whip up a wicked political stew, she has turned out a mere Hasty Pudding...
...have to campaign anyway. Nevertheless, reinforced by the presence of CORE'S Floyd McKissick, he got in a few licks for the benefit of reporters and TV cameras. "Long before Mr. Meredith was having his diapers changed," he mocked, "I was walking the streets of Harlem on picket lines." Noting that Meredith describes himself as an "independent Democrat," Powell observed that "anybody who is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket has got to be a little tetched in the head." No one was nasty enough to remind Powell that in 1956 he bolted his party to support Dwight...