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Johnson, and his campaign manager. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, argued that Congress could not possibly complete its legislative program before next week's Democratic Convention. "Anyone who thinks we can finish up the business now before the House and Senate by the middle of next week," grumped Mr. Sam, "is a legislative idiot." Any legislative idiot who believed the same thing, chimed in Lyndon Johnson, was either a "phony or a hypocrite." Yet scores of Congressmen, Senators and other politicos thought that fellow Texans Johnson and Rayburn had just possibly planned it that way. Looming congressional action on such...
Four-Letter Bird. In Brooklyn, Sam Maiorana, haled into court on a charge of disorderly conduct for the "vile and abusive language" of his 40-year-old parrot, was released for future trial after the bird, called upon for a demonstration, kept its beak shut for two solid hours...
Showing the Flagg Sir: In your June 6 issue, you state that James Montgomery Flagg's best-known picture was a World War I recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam, black-browed with pointing finger, "demanding: I WANT YOU." In 1914 there was a recruiting poster in England depicting Lord Kitchener, black-browed, black-mustached and with pointing finger, with the caption YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU. This was before your time, probably, but I remember, and I imagine James M. Flagg did also. JOHN B. THOMPSON Grouville, Jersey...
...After five leisurely months, the 86th Congress last week launched a frantic drive to pass "must" legislation. Items: ¶The House passed (258-124) a $3.58 billion foreign-aid bill, $590.5 million below Administration requests, but a surprising $200 million above the $3.38 billion package backed by House Speaker Sam Rayburn-thanks to a rare combination of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats engineered by Minority Leader Charlie Halleck. New York's Old Guard John Taber, longtime aid trimmer, led the disciplined Republican ranks in bidding for $200 million more for military assistance (total: $1.8 billion), which the Democrats supported...
...Sam Newhouse likes to be a bit off handed about his press purchases. Ex plaining that his son Donald, who is pub lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...