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...Eric A. McCouch...
Gypsy Rose Lee, dressed to the chin, prim as a nanny and starchy as a duchess, took the air in Chicago's Lincoln Park with Son Eric nestled in a "cuddleseat," gave her public something new to goggle...
...usual briskly benign manner, President Eric Johnston breezed into Atlantic City for the annual convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. One of the first things he did was to tell reporters: "It would be suicidal if price control was abolished immediately. . . . The worst thing that could happen to us would be for prices to spiral and for us to have a period of boom and bust." That afternoon, the Chamber gave its retiring president the back of its hand as it called for the end of all price control, except rent...
Three days later, as Eric Johnston, 49, handed his gavel over to the Chamber's incoming new president, William Kenneth Jackson, 59, there was speculation on whether the Chamber wasn't also turning back to its old hidebound ways. In his four years as its head, Johnston had given the Chamber a patina of liberalism it had never had before. As its spokesman, he had probably made the most eloquent and effective exposition of the new social consciousness of many businessmen...
...show, bright and British as a redcoat, rose to the occasion. It was a political parable about two youngsters (Soprano Carole Lynn and Tenor Eric Palmer) who get themselves elected to Parliament on an All Party ticket. Forthwith they foil the villainess, Mrs. Alderman Busy (Joan Young), a battle-ax burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime...