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...just read a nasty quip about what it would be like to have Jack Kennedy's expected child and his small daughter in the White House [spilled milk, crayon marks on the hallowed walls, etc.]. One would do well to read up on what happened when Teddy Roosevelt's family was there. At least the little Kennedy girl is not big enough to ride a pony through the White House...
...from the Farmer. The liberal New York Post was almost inevitably reminded of a quip made by Humorist Goodman Ace: "Public opinion polls reach everyone in America, from the farmer in his field right up to the President of the United States, Thomas E. Dewey." But to Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, Gallup's 1960 post-convention poll was downright sinister. The polls, cried Gore, are "almost meaningless and in many instances misleading," but they still have an "entirely unjustified" influence on elections. With that, Gore hinted at an investigation of the pollsters by the Senate Privileges...
Decisions are made by a family council consisting of Mrs. Rudkin, her husband, and sons Henry Jr., 36, and William, 34, both vice presidents. Henry Rudkin became company chairman, gradually retired from Wall Street; when people ask him if he is still in the Street, he likes to quip: "No, I'm in the dough." Mrs. Rudkin is just as enthusiastic about baking today as when she started in her own kitchen. She is full of plans for expanding her products, would even like to move into Europe "to show them how to make good bread...
...Ameche. Dancer Pat Stanley is piquant, and the best of Agnes de Mille's dances and ballets are stylish. No One'll Ever Love You is a sassy duet, The Beast in You an amusing ditty. Walter Kerrs staging is lively and firm, and here a quip and there a crack bears Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Kerr's dewy, screwy touch...
...organized force of a community," wrote the Navy's Mahan, "is and must remain the basis of social order so long as evil exists to be repressed." The admiral and his men might even rerun it into a new definition of the t)ld Navy quip that had loomed so large in the long and notable service of Admiral James Lemuel Holloway. That new definition, which was also a new challenge: Do you fight the cold war the -hard way, i.e., by letting things slide into a shooting war, or the Holloway, i.e., by deploying adequate power to stop...