Word: warded
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Religious Issue. Most talked about reason for Southern restlessness is Jack Kennedy's Roman Catholicism. "We haven't come as far from '28 as I thought," said a North Carolinian last week. Kennedy is being openly chastised from many a Protestant pulpit. Dr. Ward V. Barr of Gastonia, N.C.'s First Baptist Church says flatly: "I fear Catholicism more than I fear Communism...
Opening this week at a Michigan summer playhouse is a political satire about a conniving ward heeler, Ballots Up! The playwright: "Larry Sand," who based the work on a 1957 novel. Let George Do It, by "John Foster." As suspicions mounted about the play's authorship, investigation soon proved that Playwright Sand is Novelist Foster; both are, in fact, Massachusetts' two-term Democratic Governor (John) Foster Furcolo, 49. Long since unmasked as the author of the novel, Furcolo was slightly perturbed to stand revealed, even before the first night, as, the playwright. Said he: "I didn...
...drawing to a close," he said, and so is "unbelievable waste and ostentation in the most important and most conspicuous product of our economy." To Crusader Romney, the shift meant not only a turn to function instead of frills, but a sign that the national psychology is leaning to ward "reason and realism...
...could be biting, but most of the time he was jovially rustic where Sahl is urban and hip. Rogers was lovable, and even his fans do not claim that quality for Sahl. But in his own way, Sahl has taken his place on the center line of the Ward-Dooley-Rogers tradition. The Depression and war years produced only minor political satire. Among comedians, Bob Hope -who still typifies the older, machine-tooled and essentially safe topical joke-might crack about Eleanor Roosevelt's never staying home; Fred Allen liked to say that Tom Dewey seemed to be eating...
...payday usually means a visit to the PX, the world's biggest exclusive shopping preserve. Last week the payday rush was on in 5,933 PXs, helping to make the Army and Air Force Exchange Service rank in dollar volume below only Sears, Roebuck, J. C. Penney, Montgomery Ward and F. W. Woolworth among retail chains. To maintain its place as one of the U.S. military's greatest fringe benefits, PX branches stock up to 30,000 items, sell everything from underwear to refrigerators-all at cut-rate prices designed for the private who earns only...