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After the Senate confirmed Charles Erwin Wilson as Defense Secretary, a Pentagon wag quipped: "They okayed him lock and barrel." Last week the Senate's Armed Services Committee okayed Wilson's four top assistants on the same lock-and-barrel basis-minus stock in defense industries. Then the committee recalled Air Secretary-designate Harold E. Talbott for a third round of questioning. The Senate went ahead and confirmed the other three appointees by voice vote...
...Essex Show at Madison, NJ. Other breed champions: Pekingese Ch. Tai Chuo Sun of Dah Wong, owned by Sara F. Hodges and Aimée Ferret; Laura Franklin Delano's long-haired dachshund, Ch. Tytucker of Gypsy Barn; Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Gillich's chowchow, Ch. Owhyo Wag-Gee (winner of 130 best-of-breed blue ribbons in four years); J. Stuart Walton's Ch. Lyn Mar's Clown (best basset hound at the Westminster show for the past three years...
This set off legal actions and bitter recriminations which gave Birmingham tongues something to wag about for four years. Determined to get back a block of stock he had given his son, Ingalls Sr. brought court action to force him to sell it to stockholders under a 1943 agreement. The court turned him down, on the ground that the stock could be retired only by death or resignation, not by firing. Then he sent armed guards with $2,131,000 in $1,000 bills to Bob Jr. to buy the stock back. Young Bob refused, saying that it was worth...
...spectacle with no meat on its bones. Generally speaking, the important thing in a play is what you hear, not what you see. It has to be written before it can be produced. I'm interested in production, but I don't think that the tail should wag...
...most eligible unmarried man in the U.S. That status will not ease the nominee's burden from here to November. Almost every time he is seen in public with a woman, or a feminine acquaintance mentions his name with what her listeners consider a special inflection, tongues will wag and columnists' typewriters will clatter...