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Like any prudent Congressman quick to heed even the silliest requests from a constituent, Brooklyn Democrat John J. Rooney, 53, asked the Library of Congress to ransack its stacks and files for the words to an oldtime ditty entitled The Lobster Is the Wise Guy, After AIL The library, one of the world's great literary storehouses, was embarrassed to reply that it could not locate Rooney's Lobster among its Crustacea volumes or anywhere else. At hearings on the library's budget, Representative Rooney scolded Librarian of Congress L Quincy Mumford: "I was amazed to find...
...looks much the way Callas did before her celebrated slimming down, it was hard to see why the Roman governor would prefer her to Norma. But none of this mattered much with Callas on stage. As an actress, unlike most of her competitors, Callas radiates credibility even in the silliest situations. Her performance is not a mere recital with costumes and a few gestures, but a thing of passion and of peculiarly stylized and yet convincing movement that is distinctly...
Next cliché: he decides to quit, go back to New York, find a play he believes in, recover his self-respect. Enter the Big Producer (Rod Steiger), who would be the silliest ogre since Jack and the Beanstalk if he were not at the same time a frighteningly close caricature of a well-known Hollywood type-the self-made magnate who demonstrates in his person, as Fred Allen once remarked, "the horrors, of unskilled labor." Producer lays it on the line: sign the contract or go to jail (for the hit-and-run killing of a girl, committed while...
...silliest thing I ever heard," taunted Syngman Rhee, "American soldiers threatening to shoot their allies to protect Communists." Rhee assured Lemnitzer that his government had no intention of using force, but to make sure, the American gave orders to reinforce the U.S. guard at all five of the inspection points where the NNSC officers are billeted. It was a wise precaution, for within hours the rioting began...
...argued, and Kansas City was full of potential fans. Even the A's Connie Mack, 91, Grand Old Man of Baseball, agreed that the move was a good idea. But Connie's two squabbling sons and co-owners, Roy and Earle, could not agree to sell. The silliest wrangle since Seward bought Alaska followed. But last week Connie Mack, his failing health shaken by months of bickering, sold his team to Johnson with a shaking hand. The price: $3,500,000-with Connie Mack Stadium and $800,000 in debts thrown...