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Perhaps sensing that the hearings were hurting him, Gray pleaded with the Judiciary Committee to report his nomination promptly to the full Senate. "I have attempted to answer every question," he said. "You are not buying a pig in a poke." Almost abjectly, he described himself as innocently caught in a crossfire: "Now in the middle stands your humble and obedient servant, Pat Gray." Under heavy questioning by California Democrat John
...evening's anti-Jersey jokes so dear to the hearts of New Yorkers. The two men have not done a show together in eleven years or spoken privately in twelve. In point of fact, they loathe each other. Clark bears a particular grudge, because Lewis used to finger-poke him in the chest and spray him with saliva during their act. But the potent arm of CBS-TV reunites them to take part in a history-of -comedy spectacular...
...Boone as Mr. Clean because he favored passage of the proposition. For truly unbiased journalism, should you not also have referred to John Wayne as Mr. Dirty because he is opposed? Our country needs more outspoken men with Pat Boone's morals and fewer magazines and entertainers who poke...
...twist a lion's tail when there is no longer a lion attached. He loved to tease the middle class, but in a welfare state, the middle class has lost both the hopes of fortune and the fears of penury upon which Shaw played. He loved to poke fun at lower-class blighters who dropped their H's, and today-irony of ironies-the sons of those blighters, and not he or his disciples, are the ruling dramatists of the English stage. -T.E.K...
...Rangers, under the direction of coach Emile "the Cat" Francis, have come a long way from the days when Harry Howell and Larry Cahan used to inadvertently poke the puck by the beleaguered Ranger goalie, Gump Worsley...