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...saved a PT-boat crew in the Pacific's wartime waters." Smiled the Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond: "He is pleasant to know." Walter Lippmann paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving Westbrook Pegler almost alone to carry the dissent: "A hard, selfish politician with no warm emotional ties...
...disgust with sex not only inspires one of the finest sonnets ("The expense of spirit in a waste of shame is lust in action"), but it erupts with sour rancor in all the major tragedies but Macbeth. With almost prurient relish, Hamlet chides his mother not to let the "bloat king" with his "reechy kisses" tempt her again to bed. The eightyish Lear, who might be presumed past sex obsession, works himself up into a fury on the devil in woman's flesh...
...when Mantle's game goes sour, he turns sullen in self-disgust. Says Cleveland General Manager Frank Lane: "Trouble with Mantle is, he's fighting himself. He'll go zero for three and then look miserable on a fly ball because he's brooding." When Mantle is down, the boos begin to rumble throughout Yankee Stadium even before he steps into the batter's box. Mantle hears every catcall, fools no one when he shrugs: "These people don't know what the hell they're booing...
...great place to visit but would hate to live there-and never get tired of saying so. In this picture Scenarist Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin, who also wrote the 1950 Broadway comedy that his script is borrowed from, feeds the out-of-town customers a mess of their own sour grapes, along with a generous helping of sex, sentiment, sadism and smartchat...
...airplane hangars and convention halls, U.S. industry's managers gathered last week for their annual rites of spring: the yearly stockholders' meeting. When the news was good-as it generally was-sunlight and flute music filled the scene, but when it was bad, there were squalls and sour notes...