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...easy to pooh-pooh the fact that the Party of the Right is now the largest student party in the Political Union at Yale, but it's very important." See PRESS, Angry Voice on the Right...
...would shout repeatedly, "The rest of you are privates"). Agnes Moorehead, a suitably grating witch, all but punctured the screen with her cockney accent, and Sterling Holloway, as Jack Pumpkinhead, cried seeds instead of tears. Hostess Temple herself, whose new series will include such additional material as Winnie-the-Pooh and Kim, played-within her limitations -both Princess Ozma and the boy Tip. She turned up for the new season deglamorized, lacking the airy coiffure and shining lipstick which she used to help sell last season's Shirley Temple Story Book...
...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. A previously untranslated 1927 satire of revolutionary Russia by the man who is now Communism's No. 1 journalistic Pooh-Bah. This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar...
...Pennsylvania Democrats gave Jack Kennedy a handsome 173,000 write-in votes, three times the combined totals of all other candidates. But Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor David Lawrence, a Roman Catholic who doubts Co-Religionist Kennedy's chances, pooh-poohed the performance, kept a tight rein on the state's 81 convention votes...
...presidential segregation of the Dixie-born, Johnson has done everything short of moving the state of Texas to the Rocky Mountains (in February, for the second successive year, Johnson and his partisans tried and failed to get Texas admitted to the Democratic conference of Western states). In public, Johnson pooh-poohs the notion that a Southerner can't win. "Hell," he snorted recently, "Jack Garner was on a national ticket in 1936, and the Democrats took 'em all except Maine and Vermont." But Franklin Roosevelt was on the topside of that ticket, and times were different. Texas...