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Charity throws the stalest book in the house at the house, the story of a doxy with a heart of gold, a taxi dancer who always falls for men who are either too sly or too shy to do her any good. In his weakest script to date, Neil Simon (Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple) seems to have heard rather than written the gags, and the dialogue is stippled with vulgarities, presumably aimed at the expense account trade...
Some of the freshest, as well as some of the stalest, writing in U.S. newspapers appears on the sport pages. The men who write the sport headlines hate to use a quiet word when a violent one will do. One day last week the Denver Post, refusing to admit defeat in its football headlines, found 32 ways of avoiding it: Blast, batters, murder, pastes, whip, crush, wreck, jolt, outscraps, spanks, rolls over, romps over, upsets, rout, toy, dump, bows to, tumbles, drops, trip, tops, sinks, buries, belts, wallops, wins, blanks, licks, trounces, subdues, turns back, edges...
...Cordell Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...
...than its three nearest competitors (Cairo, Jerusalem, Beirut) combined. It can also be heard more clearly than any but local stations. London made top score for the station which gives "the freshest news, and up to one-third of the listeners said that their own local stations had the stalest news...
Senator's stalest bit of gossip-A President Pitches a Little Woo-was dated February 28, 1844. It related the old story of President John Tyler's below-decks necking with 20-year-old Julia Gardner when a gun blew up on the new U.S.S. Princeton during a trial run on the Potomac, killing Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, Julia Gardner's father and two others. Wooer Tyler married the girl a few months later...