Word: rayburnisms
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...show is taped at CBS Television City, in the same studio as The Price is Right. The new show is a jazzed-up version of the classic Match Game, which aired in the 60s and from 1973-1982, with host Gene Rayburn. A similar version tried to win audience on ABC but did not succeed...
...sent to another Senator after the hearing. No matter. It's unlikely Gates is hankering to return. The 42-year-old Harvard dropout may be the world's smartest and richest businessman, but as he learned last week, that and $1.60 get you a cup of chowder in the Rayburn cafeteria...
...sure, the prospect of Simon's distinctive sound and formidable musical skills enlivening Broadway is an exciting one. But his I-did-it-my-way approach recalls Sam Rayburn's famous line about the Ivy League intellects whom President John F. Kennedy assembled as advisers: "I'd feel a whole lot better about them if one of them had just run for sheriff once." Notes Simonson: "Paul Simon is an amazing artist. But there are reasons why the theater process has evolved the way it has. You can only reinvent the wheel so many ways...
...Kennedy at all. His main source? The late Hyman Raskin, a little-known Chicago lawyer and Democratic political operative. In interviews and an unpublished memoir, Raskin says that Kennedy had settled on Missouri Senator Stuart Symington as his running mate until Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn pulled him into that mysterious meeting...
...Trent Lott and some bipartisan Senators want to redesign the Senate chamber [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 8]. This would be the biggest government money pit since the construction of the Rayburn Building. The idea of putting up something that is "tasteful, historically appropriate and...television-friendly" will give way to things that are gold plated and unnecessary. The cost will easily hit $20 million because when Senators are doing for themselves, they just can't stop. I would much rather the public revolt and rip out the seats and air conditioning from both chambers. Uncomfortable legislators just might get the people...