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...Morgan to select one poem from the Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery most likely to survive the ice age 'of creeping exurbia and the great woolly adman, Nash moodily recalled "some hair-of-the-dog-gerel from my unregenerate youth: 'Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...
...about the Chamber of Commerce. Security can't be cheap, you know. It's all right to be supercritical if you want to, if you have any constructive suggestions. But I don't know how to get 4,000,000 [Defense Department] people to be smarter quicker." Defending the way his budget was made up last fall, Wilson noted the then critical Hungarian and Middle East crises. How could anyone say that there was no risk in the world? asked Wilson sharply. "My friends in the Chamber of Commerce." he snapped, "represent some of the richest people...
...Quicker than a hornet could buzz, Douglas' fellow liberal Democrats, including Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Richard Neuberger, deserted him. "Let me be blunt about the matter, and say that I am not sure which quarter the President would postpone," Humphrey said plaintively. He read off a list of Minnesota projects, then added: "They are a part of a quarter that I do not want the President to touch." With equal candor, Neuberger admitted: "On this bill I happen to be 'stuck,' . . . God Almighty put a great deal of water [in Oregon...
Producers' Showcase stripped the Old Vic's 2½-hr. Romeo and Juliet down to a tidy 72 minutes last week, and the operation was a dramatic success. Apart from the quicker tempo and TV's obvious advantages of closeups, fadeouts and greater fluidity, the presentation also contributed Otis Riggs's clean, spare scenery which released play and players from the Old Vic's 19th century picture-book designs. John Neville, in the role that Olivier once dismissed with Mercutio-like disdain ("Romeo is really a jerk"), was carved out of beaverboard; he crashed parties...
...Roosevelt stated that the recent Egyptian-Israeli squabble might have been prevented by a quicker exercise of leadership...