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...tempest in the TV teapot be finally laid to rest with one simple statement of fact...
...popular stereotype of the faculty wife, teapot in hand, is not wrong, it is simply not inclusive. While Mrs. Owen may find it indispensible to the running of Winthrop House, Mrs. Bundy may have her teapot on the top shelf, out of the reach of her four small children, and Mrs. Schlesinger Jr. may use hers for a still life. Though the University affects all faculty wives its impact varies. The wives of the Masters, department chairmen, and administrative officials have a good deal "thrust upon them." A majority of the responsibility for hostessing newcomers' teas, "visiting firemen's" dinners...
...Gang's All Here. Although the authors (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) insist that they have not confined their history to the seamy politics of Warren Gamaliel Harding, no one who remembers the Teapot Dome scandal will feel obliged to believe them. Not that telling the truth is bad theater, but in this case it does not seem to pay. Melvyn Douglas does nobly as the ash-flaked, unbuttoned ex-Senator trying to forget the presidency, an office he neither understands nor is fitted for, and veteran Comedian Bert Wheeler is a natural as his poker-playing sidekick...
From the beginning, the great Dixon-Yates ruckus of 1954-55 was more a teapot tempest than a Teapot Dome, but the Eisenhower Administration recoiled from it as though it were superheated steam. In Washington last week, the U.S. Court of Claims ruled the celebrated power contract "honest" and, in effect, rebuked the Administration for not having the courage of its convictions...
...prolonged Strauss hearings (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Democrats made much of his role as AEC chairman in working out the Dixon-Yates contract, used it against him in the fight that led to the first turndown (49-46) of a presidential Cabinet nomination since the days of Teapot Dome...