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...than required, the great majority of the audience turns up black-tied and bejeweled. In the 75-minute intermission between acts, the orchestra usually gathers to play croquet by the fading evening light while the audience sets up their folding tables on the lawn and dines from bulging wicker picnic baskets...
...girl recalling the days of grits and gravy. Then again, it may be simply lazy schmalz, dressed to the airy glamour of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Whatever the secret of its appeal, Moon River is the most successful melody to come from a film score since the classic Picnic theme six years ago. And its composer, Henry Mancini, has become Hollywood's hottest musicman. Says the modest Mancini: "I don't know how it happened, but there it is." Home in the Movies. Mancini, 38, spent six years as a back-lot scorer and arranger until...
...begin congressional investigations during his Administration, were showing "no enthusiasm, no drive and no sense of priority" in poking into the Estes case. Texas' Republican Senator John Tower said he had evidence that the Estes case "may make the Teapot Dome scandal look like a Sunday-school picnic." At that point Kennedy came to the defense of Freeman. The President, said Acting Press Secretary Andrew Hatcher, has "the greatest confidence in Secretary Freeman, and that confidence remains unchanged...
...looks undressed when not surrounded by a drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load of Dino on a horse...
...when an enemy air attack occurs, your family happens to be out on a picnic in nature's wide open spaces, "try to get to some substantial structure, such as a large commercial or civic building, a tunnel, or cave. If none of these is readily available, look for a culvert, underpass or ditch--anything that will get you below ground level--and improvise a shelter"--presumably with any old sandbags or concrete blocks that happen to be lying around...