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...Hollywood the cameras picked up Republican Cinemactor Cesar Romero, a greying panther stalking among the dejected at Nixon headquarters. In a poignant cliché from Washington, ABC showed rows of empty chairs at Republican National Headquarters. Republican National Committee Chairman Thruston B. Morton made appearances on both NBC and CBS, recklessly and gloriously told the U.S. at midnight that the Republicans really had it in the Western...
...Dixieland, strictly speaking, which anyone today will tell is not jazz. Anyone, that is, who didn't participate in the 20-year orgy from 1919 to 1940. There are those, of course, who maintain that there haven't been any musicians since Jelly Roll Morton, but such antediluvians are obsolete, anyway...
...gypsy moth, a European immigrant that defoliates forests in New England and is threatening the Middle West from a beachhead near Detroit, may soon be undone by synthetic sex. Martin Jacobson, Morton Beroza and William A. Jones, all of the U.S. Agricultural Research Service, tell in Science how they have isolated and synthesized the powerful chemical lure with which female gypsy moths attract their males...
Truman's intemperate words touched off a salvo of indignation. In Waco, Texas, a group of 72 Baptist ministers passed a resolution rebuking Truman "as a Christian, a Baptist, and a guest in our midst." In Washington, G.O.P. Chairman Thruston Morton (himself no slouch at name calling) described the Truman speech as despicable, degrading, a smear, low-road tactics, a back-alley campaign and a slur on the 35.5 million Americans who voted for Nixon in 1956. In a blistering telegram Morton called on Jack Kennedy "to disown Truman's attack and to apologize to the American people...
Meet the Press (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guests: Democratic and Republican National Committee Chairmen Henry M. Jackson and Thruston B. Morton...