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...Midwestern Hayride (Wed. 10:30 p.m.), which consists of fancy Dans caterwauling heart-rending laments and pretty cowgirls yodeling morosely as they pluck at guitars. The show turns around Master of Ceremonies Willie Thall, a part-time hillbilly from Chicago, who talks corny on mike, but is a city slicker...
...Hampshire, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver stopped over in Boston, ran into ugly weather, donned a slicker and sou'wester that made it a hard choice as to whether he most resembled Captain Ahab or the Uneeda Biscuit boy. In New Hampshire, Kefauver cried: "I'm here to win." Later he explained: "I want to be President of the U.S. because I have great ambitions for our country." In the same spirit, he refused to pose for photographers in his familiar coonskin cap, saying that he has reluctantly scrapped it as his political symbol because "some...
...face of it, the production looked like a sure winner. The cast stars Kim Hunter and Ronny Graham, no longer the New Face he was when Leonard Sillman discovered him, but a slicker performer. And Max Shulman was in on the writing. Besides, it is the first comedy of the new season and the theatregoer set off, hope springing autumnal in his breast...
...C.I.O. Auto Workers' international educational conference at Chicago, cannot be fought with more tyranny. And since McCarthy launched his Red hunt four years ago, "we have been victims ... of a kind of shell game. We have been treated like country rubes, to be taken in by a city slicker from Appleton...
Measured by the city slicker yardstick, farmers' Cadillacs are getting longer each year. No doubt a number of men in farming, as in all industries, prospered in the years following the war. But sobering statistics show that even in good times the average farmer earns less than a dollar an hour, including the food he grows for his family. Even so, farmers are concerned not so much with increasing their slice of the economic pie as insuring that they get it every year...