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Both before and after President Eisenhower took to TV to defend his besieged budget (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Capitol Hill Democrats snickered in the cloakrooms: "The Republican Party should demand equal time to answer him!" Utah's neo-dinosaurian Republican ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee, now chairman of the "For America" committee, did exactly that. By last week three major TV networks had turned down Republican Lee's request, leaving only Mutual Broadcasting Network as his last hope.
In his zeal for fast cars and beautiful women, Spain's late Marquis de Portago (TIME, May 20) neglected the legal adoption of one of his sons, Kim, now 3. Legally fatherless, little Kim was last week the object of a private tug o' war that will probably never land in the courts. Racer de Portage's mother, Olga Martin-Montis, holder of the De Portago purse strings, is fond of her grandson, reportedly wishes to adopt him herself. All for keeping the boy and wangling from Olga a settlement on him is Kim's mother, onetime famed U.S. Model Dorian Leigh, 36, jilted last year by the marquis (long estranged from U.S.-born wife) after he ran afoul of the charms of much-traveled Cinemactress Linda (The Happy Time) Christian.
Last week Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was telling an improbable yarn about the G.O.P., but asserting that it "could have happened." The Keef's rib-tickler: After a newsman asked a Republican Congressman to define "Modern Republicanism," a Democratic bystander gave the answer: "Modern Republicanism is excitingly and dynamically conservative. It is neither inflexibly traditional nor discordantly progressive. It is at once distinctive and secure, but never overwhelming or confining. It has dignity, quality and dependability. It is designed for men and women of early middle age with an income of over $25,000 a year and a net worth of at least $75,000." The astonished reporter, according to Kefauver, gasped: "Where did you ever get that?" "Simple," replied the explicit Democrat. "I took it right out of an ad for Lincoln Continental!''
*Proclaims one Hindu manual for wives: "Be her husband deformed, aged, infirm, offensive . . . choleric, debauched, immoral, a drunkard, a gambler, let him frequent places of ill-repute, live in open sin with other women ... a wife should always look upon him as her god . . . remain with her eyes fixed upon him waiting for his orders."