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Stevenson has announced on a dozen different occasions that he does not choose to run in 1960. "I will not seek the Democratic nomination this year," he said emphatically on a New York TV show last week. But he carefully leaves a door ajar, and he has told friends that if the Democratic convention should draft him for the nomination he would not refuse. No one who talks to Stevenson doubts that he will stay clear of the fight; his old bruises from the rough and tumble 1956 state primaries still pain him. But granted the purest of motives...
...congressional Deputy accused Plaza of "exploiting a corpse" and "trying to capture votes, not souls." The bitter anti-Peronists who run the army called Plaza in for a talk. Undeterred, Plaza pleaded on TV for an end to Peron's exile in the Dominican Republic. "The church cannot want any of its sons to suffer," he said, "and it is to be supposed that an Argentine exiled from his country lives in suffering." At week's end part of the front of Plaza's house was blasted off by unknown bomb setters-a hint of the passions...
...picked up by P. T. Barnum, first big producer of The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved. Last week The Drunkard's lachrymose prose reverberated no more in Los Angeles, where the show was revived in 1933 at the small, stucco Theatre Mart and reeled on for the longest run in U.S. theatrical history: 9,477 performances. The play was a victim of exhaustion and the local fire department (which recently cut the Theatre Mart's top capacity from 340 seats to an uneconomic...
During its 26-year run, 3,080,025 tourists and Angelenos paid (1959 top: $4.50) to see the show, jeer its four sneering villains, cheer its seven winning heroes. The customers also downed 5,700,000 bottles of free beer, ate 3,000,000 sandwiches. A sort of Everylush that chronicles the progress of evil as it pickles its weak title character, The Drunkard turned the Theatre Mart into a favorite resort for W. C. Fields, Mae West, Lily Pons. Though the playhouse has been put on the block, there is a chance that The Drunkard may survive...
Before the Legionnaires left town, the Star recorded their activities in dozens of color pictures. This is more color than most newspapers use, but they use plenty. The increase in run-of-press color, i.e., in regular press runs as opposed to specially preprinted color, is a major development in U.S. journalism. Moving westward, its importance grows almost in geographical proportion: in the East, 52% of newspaper readers get multicolor dailies; in the Midwest, 87%, and in the Far West...