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...after twelve years the bottom has dropped out of it too. Or at any rate out of last week's half-Ways and Means, Family Album, Red Peppers (this week: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage...
Walnut Panels. After his death in 1924, the Chamber dropped much of the old flamboyance. In the oak-mahogany-walnut-paneled offices in the Chamber's own nine-story building, there is a full-time staff of 150 go-getters headed by able, 44-year-old General Manager Harold Wright. The staff is actively supported by some 13,400 members who serve on the Chamber's scores of committees, a board of 49 directors which meets once a week, a president who customarily spends about half his time on Chamber work...
...Parliament is dissolved, which might happen at any time with Charles de Gaulle waiting in the wings, the constitution provides that the Assembly president shall take over as "acting Premier" until a new government is formed. That would be Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot of Lyon, reliable as an oak, who was re-elected to the presidency last week. But M. Herriot is old and ailing. If he were too ill to serve, the first vice president would take over. Therefore, reasoned the Assembly majority, Jacques Duclos must not again be first vice president...
...such legislature as the proposed Barnes Bill, now resting somewhere in the devious channels of the Massachusetts State House. Although just about all educators in the Commonwealth presumably are strongly opposed to an act that would put every professor under almost as vigilant government gaze as an employee at Oak Ridge, Mr. Conant has been the first to express his denunciation in definite, well-publicized terms. He ably points out that being an asset to some government department and being a valuable member of a university faculty are far from one and the same thing. Nor should the "armed truce...
...Antonio, won the title of World's Champion Liar, awarded annually by the Burlington, Wis. Liars Club. His story: while he and Charley Skorpea were playing pool for the championship of Boggy Creek Bottoms, a fly lighted on the eightball. "Charley chalked his cue-a 47-ounce, solid-oak Brunswick-and knocked the eight-ball out from under the fly so fast that it fell on the table and broke its back...