Evening star., 1953-12-13
Eisenhower Sees NotubIes
Joshed at Gridiron Banquet

ron Banquet
trouble, Senator Knowland re.
piled, so long as he had that
man in the White House" be-
hind him. The Californian sang
''I'll Get BY" with the words:
"I'll get by, as long as I have
you.
Though there is Morse, and
Capehart too,
"I1l hold the fort, I'll see 1t
through.
Senators may roar at me,
that's true.
But what care !, say,
"I1l get by,
"As long as I have you!"
In "Smalltown, u. s. A." Dem
ocratic characters gathered at
the drugstore corner to console
Miss DENNY" whose fellow had
left her. Senator Byrd allowed
that Virginians always had
known that A-da-lie was up
to no good"
But when Adlai arrived on
the scene with Miss ADA, he
coaxed the villagers to the tune
of Bali Hal:
"Your own special hopes, your
own special dreams
"Will bloom in your breast and
inspire all your schemes.
IF you try, you'll find me
Meath the sky. on the sea
Here am I, your special idol
"Come to me, come to me
"A-da-lie. A-da-lie, A-da-lie!"
Senator Symington of Mis-
souri, came in to quiet the dis
senting babble that arose from
Adlai's invitation, announcing
that he, himself, was "the hot
test thing that has hit this burg
since Averell Hartman"
Assistance From Texas.
Mr.. Symington got his friend,
Senator Lyndon Johnson of
Texas, to help press his suit for
the hand of Miss DENNY. I'M
ploring Mr.. Symington to dis
close his plans. Senator johnson
sang, to the tune of "You, You,
YOU:
"You were meant for the big
job.
"Now please say it out loud
'You're our Democrat heart
throb,
"You stand out in a small
crowd"
Just at that point Senator
Kefauver came wandering in in
his Daniel Boone outfit to plead
for Nah pore ILL old iva" and
to sing:
please don't sell down.
Down the river
"My ole Tennessee Valley,
Its rates are so low"
Then. leveling fingers at Gen.
Eisenhower at the appropriate
point. the chorus joined in with
the music of Tennessee Waltz:
81 remember the big
"Give-away of the tidelands.
"And the creeps
Creeping social with him.
But / need my iva so
"And the REA, too, so
Don't let them sell my IVA"
Gov. James F. Byrnes of South
Carolina came rushing in to ex-
claim that he had heard Miss
DENNY was being abused. But
Miss DENNY had eyes only for
Uncle Harry" former President
Truman, who assured her that
there "ain't no snollygoster gonna
jilt my DENNY"
Jimmy and Harry aired their
differences over the Dexter White
case and Harry was about to ar
range shotgun wedding between
Adlai and Miss DENNY when
Enoch Arden Roosevelt, jr., came
in. Miss Ada and Miss DENNY
both flew into his arms and he
paraphrased Jericho" in these
words:
"Frank'll fight de battle oh
Washington. Washington.
Washington,
"Frank'll fight de battle oh
Washington, and de
votes come tumblin'
down."
But it was the Bermuda "Big
Three" Conference that set the
Gridironers to dreaming of
Christmas. with the chorus sing
ing Deck the Halls with Bou-
gainvilla. Secretary of State
Dulles got together with Britain's S
Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden,
and Frances Foreign Minister,
Georges Bidault, to sing about the
small, exclusive coterie of three
who had to bear the worlds
miseries:
"Glorious! Glorious!
winnie wishes there were
four of us.
"Glory be that there are no
more of us.
Cause the three Of US can
louise 1t up alone"
Mr.. Eden ventured the opin-
ion that England and the United
States might be able to get
along. after all, but Mr.. Dulles
promptly shushed him.
Eden Shushed.
mot so loud. Anthony Eden,
not so loud-I think I saw a SEN
ator behind that bush," Mr..
Dulles cautioned.
Lester Pearson Of Canada
came. in with a demand to in
crease the Big Three to the big
Seven" by including Quebec.
Saskatchewan, Medicine Hat and
Igor Gouzenko."
All of this began to make it