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...give him control of 50,000 state jobs, Scranton awoke on the morning after Election Day as a Republican really to be reckoned with. So desperate is Pennsylvania's economic condition that Scranton can hardly help improving things. An admirer of New York's Governor Rockefeller, Scranton pooh-poohs all suggestions that he himself might seek the nomination. But it could happen...
Whatever the case, Jigs does not quite have the ring of authenticity achieved by that small classic The Young Visiters, supposedly written at the turn of the century by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. Nevertheless, Jigs makes some of the best out-loud reading since the original Pooh. "Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor...
...hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
...look askance at this headlong expansion and at the fact that Bedas, de spite the growing complexity of Intra's operations, continues to run it as a one-man show. But last week, as he hopped from Rome to Paris to London inspecting his empire, cocky Yusuf Bedas pooh-poohed any suggestion of overextension...
...interview with TV's David Brinkley, James B. Donovan, 46, pooh-poohed outcries that he had done the Kremlin a favor by helping engineer the exchange of Spymaster Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers. "The only information Abel could communicate to Moscow now," insisted the Manhattan lawyer, "would be descriptions of life in the penitentiary in Atlanta." Donovan doubted, too, that the Russians would reassign Abel to espionage duty. Said he: "There would always remain the lingering suspicion-especially in a semi-Oriental mind -that he had made some private deal with me to become...