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...nothing to party about. Jack Lemmon, master of ceremonies, told cardboard jokes and looked somewhat cardboard himself in his rented tails. The only funny moment in the 140-minute show came when Sammy Davis Jr., as presenter of some minor award, was handed the wrong envelope. "Wait till the N.A.A.C.P. hears about this!" he said somewhat obscurely, drawing a sizable laugh...
...until Shoemaker switched horses Hill Rise was only a co-favorite to win the Derby, with Northern Dancer, owned by Canadian Beer Baron E. P. Taylor, and ridden by-guess who?-Willie Shoemaker. The richest Canadian-bred race horse in history, with $261,365 already in the till, Northern Dancer won this month's 1½-mile Florida Derby handily enough to wow the chart callers. But if Shoemaker never said it in so many words, he hinted that the 1½-mile Kentucky Derby might be more than Northern Dancer could handle. "I like Northern Dancer...
...band of fanatics who called themselves the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei-Nazis for short-bought their first newspaper. It did not seem much of a buy. The Volkischer Beo-bachter (People's Observer), was a slender Munich biweekly with barely 7,000 subscribers and not a pfennig in the till. Its new publisher, one Adolf Hitler, made it a daily and rang up a blustering new masthead slogan: "Combat Organ of the National Socialist Movement of Germany...
...member of the pro-civil rights bill "team," Muskie said "we have just about finished presenting our case," and he expected that the first attempt to invoke cloture would come "about the last of April," although it "may not succeed till May or June." He felt that much of the public opposition was a result of "distortions being spread about the meaning of the bill...
...Former Friends of Arthur Schlesinger Jr. invite you to A Gala! Joyous! Exultant! Celebration of his Departure from the Government of the United States of America and the Opening of his New Offices, CASH (Center for the Advanced Study of History). Dinner and Dancing ... 7 o'clock till dawn . . . Many Door Prizes-a Favorable Mention in his History of the Kennedy Administration . . . Come as you were...