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From Crooner Cole came praise for NBC for "supporting the show [at a cost of $20,000 a week] and picking out good sponsors-like Rheingold Beer." As other sponsors queued up, Cole curled his prune-whip voice around a hot salvo for Madison Avenue: "That street still runs TV, and there is reluctance on its part to sell my show. Madison Avenue is in the North, and that's where the resistance is. Sometimes the South is used as a football to take some of the stain off us in the North. I have been well received...
...gripped four tubes in either hand, emp tied them in one mighty salvo, next grabbed the sake bottle of turpentine and upended it over the canvas, then dropped to his knees, began fiercely swabbing the surface with a towel, finally swarmed directly onto the canvas itself...
...cried that any such man is "intellectually dishonest and immoral." In rebuttal, Morse shouted that portly Homer Capehart is "a tub of rancid ignorance." Embarrassed by the rule-breaking spat in public, other Senators also joined in the shouting as peacemakers. Finally Wayne Morse proposed that the most intemperate salvo of his cannonade be stricken from the minutes. Thus, Capehart is no tub as far as the Congressional Record is concerned. ∙∙∙ At Washington's Griffith Stadium, Vice President Richard Nixon and his Mamie-banged daughter Patricia, 11, showed up for a baseball
...Pernicious Poetry." Cousins hastened to point out that he was not trying to "chastise" his poetry critic and he gave Ciardi space in the same issue to reply to his critics. Ciardi's second salvo was as fiery as the first. "They [are] that sort of pernicious poetry I mean to have none of in SR and . . . they provided an opportunity to offer an essential challenge to the whole pussyfooting process of book reviewing in our national mass media," Ciardi said. "The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow...
Wright Patman, nursing (as the Christian Science Monitor noted) "an old-fashioned Populist's suspicion of Eastern bankers," unloosed the first salvo. Opening a subcommittee inquiry into U.S. monetary policy, Patman explained that the hearings were justified by "the danger that the tight money policy may wreck the economy." He attacked the Federal Reserve Board for raising its discount rate (i.e., the fee charged by the Federal Reserve system on loans to member banks) from i^% to 3% over the last 20 months (TIME, Sept. 10). By thus restricting credit, rumbled Patman, the Federal Reserve Board has driven farmers...