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...league) and Sloan's playmaking brought Litzenberger to life. At week's end he was within four points of leading the league in individual scoring. Pilous figures his Pappy Line is still young enough to stay together two or three more years, and the Pappies themselves shrug off advancing age. Growls Elder Statesman Lindsay: "Old? Like hell...
...Masters of Strategy." In fact, the President could afford to shrug. The out-in-the-open criticism had somehow helped to clear the air. Ike was working hard on his congressional program. At the same time, changes in the Republican leadership of both House and Senate, which seemed at the time to work against Middle-Roader Eisenhower, had actually given him better organization to work with in both houses. As rarely before in more than six years of the Eisenhower Administration, the Republican President and the Republican members of Congress were behaving as if they belonged to the same party...
...been called political propaganda." the President told newsmen. "Now. I am not running for anything. I am just trying to do my best for America." And in trying to do his best, a lame-duck President -lately berated by Democratic critics for losing his grip and wanting to shrug off responsibilities on Congress (see The Congress) -had managed to frame the first big political issue of 1959 in his own terms...
...Paris (Jacqueline Francois; Columbia LP). Unlike her world-weary compatriot, Juliette Greco, Chanteuse Francois breathes her Paris airs with the garlicky gusto of a clothesmonger in the Flea Market. Her best number, Java Mondaine, is a Gallic shrug at a titled ancestor "who put his head on a well-sharpened guillotine...
...further poems by Whitbread are successful within their own limitations. "Don Ottavio" is a very tight little tale treated with a light touch and and a shrug--amusing and bemused. "Notices" entertains...