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The Democratic Committee of Roxbury, Conn. solemnly met to pick its two delegates to the Fifth Congressional District convention that will be held in June. Up rose a committeeman to suggest: "Wouldn't it be nice if Marilyn could be a delegate to the convention?" There being general agreement on the proposition, enrolled Roxbury Democrat Marilyn Monroe will be an alternate delegate to the district meeting, may have a chance to prove that she can swing votes as well as hips.
Manhattan cops showed no compassion for Irish-born Actor Edward Mulhare, Rex Harrison's successor as the tweedy Professor Higgins in long-running My Fair Lady. Thrice in the same day, twice in the same spot, traffic patrolmen hung $15 tickets on Mulhare's white Dodge convertible for illegal parking. Late that afternoon Mulhare made a fast getaway to Moscow along with Fair Lady's national company and 72 tons of scenery, props and luggage. Five chartered planes carried the troupe for an eight-week Russian tour. Fair Lady tickets were selling like cabbages at 60 rubles a head—highest price ever charged for tickets in Moscow, almost twice the amount exacted for the best seats at the Bolshoi Ballet.
In 1933, three years before he was defeated as the Republican presidential candidate, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman London signed a bill restoring capital punishment to the Kansas penal code. Therefore, when Kansas' current Governor, George Docking, recently commuted the death sentence of a man convicted of a brutal murder, he drew a sharp rap from Alf Landon, now 72. Last week, Docking, only half in jest, snapped: "If Landon likes capital punishment so well, we'll just offer him the job of state executioner at $100 a throw. I'll throw in free cigarettes." Replied Landon icily: "That comment sounds about as psychopathic as some of his other remarks."