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Sweating out a steaming Washington summer and the last hours of the 85th Congress, the U.S. Senate began to feel the heat. Last week, while dozens of important bills awaited Capitol Hill attention, the Senate managed to waste a full day in noisy debate over the year's silliest issue. Cause of the feckless fight: a report that the Defense Department was subsidizing studies about what sort of surrender terms the U.S. should request when and if it gets conquered by Russia...
Died. Guy Pène du Bois, 74, Brooklyn-born Greenwich Village painter, art critic, autobiographer (Artists Say the Silliest Things), father of Painter Yvonne Pène du Bois and Writer-Illustrator William Pène du Bois, uncle of Broadway set and costume Designer Raoul Pène du Bois; of cancer; in Boston. With George Luks, John Sloan, William Glackens, Du Bois was an honor student in Robert Henri's pre-World War I Ashcan School of American art, i.e., realists. With his richly colored, firmly fleshed figures (Bal des Quatre Arts, Carnival Interlude), Du Bois...
...with the crud"), still blinking at the audience like a dyspeptic owl, still relying on eager young entertainers as his guests. As he dipped for contestants' postcards into a huge revolving drum, he made no secret of his disgust with his new giveaway "crap game" ("This is the silliest thing"), grudgingly granted wishes of winners (Easter outfits, a washing machine) until he reached the request: "My dream is to own a mink coat, size 12." Then for a brief moment Godfrey smoldered. "Mink coat!" he scoffed. "I'll get ya fieldmouse." But before the first week...
...that he was accusing FCC Chairman John Charles Doerfer of chiseling the Government on expanses. He had leaked secret subcommittee papers to newsmen even while denouncing subcommittee members for doing the same thing; under Schwartz's taunting, subcommittee members swore under oath, in one of history's silliest congressional scenes, that they had not leaked a confidential memo to Columnist Drew Pearson. What finally did it was a weekend press conference at which Lawyer Schwartz accused the subcommittee of trying to "whitewash" his investigations...
...most hilarious movie. It will vastly amuse, if not stupefy, all who adore or detest television and the institution of advertising. Bearing virtually no kinship to George Axelrod's play of the same name, this Success, a happy direct descendant of custard-pie slapstick, is one of the silliest strings of sight-and-sound gags ever to jounce through the sober inhibitions of staid latter-day Hollywood. Producer-Director-Writer Frank Tashlin, a onetime Disney cartoonist and sketching fabulist (The Bear That Wasn't), plays the yarn strictly for laughs...