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...beside such stark drama, the rest of the TV week had a trivial look. NBC's Producers' Showcase offered the 12-year-old Bloomer Girl. Like many Broadway musicals transferred to TV, it had some pleasant tunes and a deplorably outdated plot. At week's end CBS tried to cheer up viewers with its own musical version of John Hersey's A Bell for Adano. Some of the lyrics were unfortunate ("We think more of the bell than the belly . . ."); the chorus of happy villagers was led by a blonde Anna Maria Alberghetti while Barry Sullivan...
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Public debate on the nation's policy of developing atomic and hydrogen bombs always has been handicapped by one stark fact: there can hardly be two sides to the argument when the nondebating Russians are rushing to perfect the biggest, most devastating weapons as fast as they can -and now are bragging about it to boot (see FOREIGN NEWS). Last week two Democratic candidates relearned this lesson in a discussion that went, chronologically, thus...
...Stark Fact. By that time the post-mortem was well under way. Because the vote in the Democratic Party was more than twice that on the Republican side, Stevenson sought comfort in his own interpretation that the big news from Minnesota was "a smashing repudiation of the present Administration...
...matter how much analysis was done, there was one big, stark fact: Adlai Stevenson had taken a critical blow in the middle of his Minnesota. He was not out but he was on the floor, and the count was almost up to ten. The seriousness of his position was wryly illustrated by Kefauver's manager, Florence Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue. Asked if Kefauver might accept Stevenson as a candidate for Vice President (an unthinkable question on the Monday before Minnesota), Donohue cracked: "I think it might be given serious consideration, if he can demonstrate a greater capacity to get votes...