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Powers That Be. By virtue of its overlapping and horizonless geography, Los Angeles has also grown beyond the conn of single powers like the Chamber of Commerce or even the select, sacred California Club, whose once-powerful members coached the city from the sidelines (and relegated newsmen-even Timesmen-to the rear elevators of its pink brick sanctuary on South Flower Street). Instead, any random list of the most influential Southern Californians would include both native sons and latecomers whose only connection with each other is that they find themselves appointed more or less to the same civic committees...
...James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sullivan and Robert Benchley, aging (54) Poetical Punster Ogden Nash laid the blame for lost laughter to the cold war and a generation of young writers "who feel it their business to attack incest." Invited by Night Beat TV Interviewer Al Morgan to select one poem from the Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery most likely to survive the ice age 'of creeping exurbia and the great woolly adman, Nash moodily recalled "some hair-of-the-dog-gerel from my unregenerate youth: 'Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker...
...immediate solution presents itself. The whole problem seems as much one of tact and politics as of abstract principles. A select Faculty committee has been appointed to investigate the entire subject of science instruction for non-scientists, and its findings, hopefully promised for next spring, will be awaited with considerable interest...
Untangling the knotted skein of corruption that spewed from the power reel of Teamster Boss Dave Beck, the select Senate committee investigating labor racketeering has turned up some devastating evidence. Even so, many a rank-and-file teamster could still tell himself that Good Old Dave had the boys' interests at heart, no matter what he did. Last week, as the hearings took on a new reel. Good Old Dave turned out to be Bad Old Dave for even the toughest teamster. Reason: testimony plainly showed that Dave 1) used the Teamsters, whenever it suited his money-hungry whims...
...raft of solid applause, intoned a rambling speech that was significant only for intimations of his political future. Potshot at Ike: the budget should be cut-by $3 billion, no less. Potshot at Knight (who was avoidably absent from the dinner): "The people of California are entitled to select their own nominees for public office and not to be handed a selected group where the public has no real choice ... in determining the nominees for governor." Big Bill, it was easy to see, was not just riding a rocking horse...