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...Hunch. Politicians bestow their brightest smiles on the TV camera, and prefer separate conferences on TV, which affords them not only direct contact with the voter but tame, often planted, questions. When TV shares a general news conference, says New York Times Midwest Correspondent Richard Johnston, the session turns from "an attempt to get at the real news into staged nonsense." Apart from crowding, heat and noise, experienced newsmen bristle at TV's vapid questions, often designed only to get a commentator into...
...teen-age daughter falls desperately in love. None of this, of course, has any great dramatic value, but it is frequently fun to watch. As the furniture designer, Jack Hawkins shows some talent as a comedian, even though he has turned in better performances in more serious roles. Margaret Johnston, who plays the designer's wife, does little more than pout, but June Thorburton, as the daughter, and John Fraser, as her young man, are both quite convincing and decorative. If nothing else, Touch and Go proves that a motion picture need not always be profound to be entertaining...
...article in the New York Times yesterday, Richard J. H. Johnston said that "the eggheads are hard to find among Adlai E. Stevenson's 1956 strategists. The starry-eyed amateuars who carried the ball in 1952 have yielded to a group of political veterans." Late last night Johnston said he meant that these people were not in the forefront...
Abel Erelong is a not very clever pseudonym for a not very clever poem about Celia and Sweeney, who should be left to Mr. Eliot. "Robert Johnston publishes an in memoriam for the passing of the 3rd Avenue El," according to the notes...
Yale's Loftus did some wrong in setting up this situation; he overdid his job. Henry Johnston of the Harvard sports publicity office may be charged with contributory negligence in the matter, for no sportswriter at New Haven ever received a word from him on the state of things...