PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY THURSDAY. AUGUST 5. 1954 PAGE TW~ TIlE MIChIGAN DAILY TmrRgnAv AJTITT~T ~ .ai..AA.VAVI.7L*1'i i. 1V l.SV U . 1 1vJY THOSE ROARING LIONS: The All Star-Professional Game: Charity or What? NEXT WEEK the Detroit Lions, Champions of the National Football League, will clash with the College All-Stars in the annual charity game at Soldiers Field in Chicago. While nothing is ac- tually decided by the outcome of this yearly meet- ing, it seems that for some strange reason win- ning the contest has taken on a new significance, especially to Arch Ward, Sports Editor of the Chi- cago Tribune and founder of the game. For the past week or so, he and head coach Ray- mond "Buddy" Parker of the Lions have been in- volved in a series of published statements which accuse the Lions of, and deny that the Lions have been employing spies to steal the plays and forma- tions of the All-Stars. Ward, who originated the idea of the yearly contest back in the early thirties at the same time he dreamed up the All-Star Baseball Game, start- ed the ball rolling when he wrote a column stating that Parker had offered a "widely known coach on the staff of a Big Ten University" a healthy sum if he would provide information nightly concerning the activity in the All-Star camp. For some unknown reason Ward is evidently worried that Parker might come up with the se- cret strategy the All-Stars are going to throw at the professionals. Possibly Ward is of the opin- ion that this game is going to decide once and for all the question of which have the better football teams, the pros or the collegians. Whatever the reason, Ward, whose paper spon- sors the game and has promoted the College All- Star side of it, doesn't seem to trust anyone. He is so determined to see his squad win that he has taken every possible precaution to prevent the Li- ons from finding out even the name of the All- Star's water boy. ^ After a lengthy battle with Parker in which the Lions were forced to play under the "one-platoon" rule adopted by the NCAA last year, Ward started' his "trust no one, not even the football players"' policy by sending back ,to the Lions one of their rookies. The Lion newcomer was originally sched- uled to play with the. All-Stars but since he might be tempted to send back reports to his bosses, he was released. Now it seems that Ward cannot even trust his own colleagues, the sports writers. He has banned even qualified newsmen from the practice ses- sions. It seems that he doesn't even trust his own players, but he states in his article that that is a chance he must take. Obviously Parker hasn't taken all this with a grain of salt. As would be expected, he was mildly perturbed over the accusation and vehemently de- nied it. He still considers the ball game to be just what it is, an exhibition, and doesn't like the idea of being accused of hiring spies to pirate the plays and formations of the collegians. While the whole thing may be a very serious matter to Ward and his associates, the incident is providing a bit of amusement to the Lions, all ex- cept Parker. One of them posted an open letter to Ward on the bulletin board of the Lions' Ypsilanti training camp saying that his published report of Parker's offer of $500 for spying has "wrecked our whole espionage system." The ". . . going rate for first class spies was $25 . .." While 'all this publicity has drawn attention to the All Star game, which may have been what Ward was trying to do in the first place, this seems like a rather strange way of doing it. For years, the All-Star Football Game has served as an unofficial opening of the football season while at the same time providing thousands of dol- lars for charity. In the past it never really matter- ed who won lfhe game as long as no one was hurt and an atmosphere of friendly competition pre- vailed. Certainly the professionals don't need the game. They could much more valuably use the time in preparing for their league opponents, especially now tLat they must conform to the "one-platoon" rule. They are accomodating Ward and the sponsors of the game who have arranged it for a worthwhile purpose. The unproven accusation that Parker is employ- ing spies to steal secret information is not only an unjustified attack on Parker but seems to imply that more is at stake in the ball game than the fans have been led to believe. Certainly there is no need to get so upset and bothered when nothing more is at stake than the outcome of an exhibi- tion football game. Whether Ward is successful in warding off the peering eyes of Lion private detectives may be de- termined a week from Friday night when the out- come of the game will be known. If the collegians win, we can assume that it was because the All- Stars had the better team. If the Lions come out on top we still won't know whether it was because they had a better team or because the spies man- aged to sneak through the web. - -Hanley Gurwin "Wel, I Got Here" -- -S, 4 ON THE W ASHINGTON MERIRY-GO-WROUND WITH DREW PEARSON By DIANE AuWERTER campuses), the outlook on international relations Daily Managing Editor may not be quite so bad after all. ONE OF THE happiest interludes during this sum-* * * * mer session was the just-completed visit of THE SELECTION of Donald Leonard, former five Japanese newsmen to the University campus. police commissioner, as the Republican guber- In attempting to give visitors an objective natorial candidate has already shown itself to be analysis of the University, one is reassured by a wise one. The strongest contender selected by the general democratic atmosphere which pre- the GOP for many years, Leonard gives promise of vails here. Although the unfortunate news about being able to crack through the union barricade in H. Chandler Davis might somewhat have damp- Wayne county. The unexpectedly large amount ened that atmosphere Tuesday, the fact that a of support he derived from upstate precincts indi- student newspaper was still able to publish a cates that he may be able to get out more than criticism of the University action provided the the usual number of voters in these areas. If both Journalists with proof-positive that the highly of these speculations are correct, he should be honored American tradition of freedom is in able to return the governorship to the GOP. operation. Gov. Williams, however, already has a 1956 The visit also demonstrated that Wendell Wilkie's convention gleam in his eye, and will undoubtedly "One World" may be more than a pipe dream, for, pull out all the stops in order to protect his chance when Japan and America get together less than at the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. ten years after World War II in the complete spirit Because both candidates are favored with a great of friendship exhibited at the University during deal of vote-getting personal charm, the real issue this two-day stopover, (and as Japanese and Amer- at stake in the 1954 race is whether or not the peo- ican students have for some years at 'numerous ple of Michigan have had enough of Gov. Williams. THE WILLINGNESS of both the House and Sen- HE d ate to reduce the Fifth Amendment to a pro- tection of only the guilty makes it apparent that, although Congress is tiring of Sen. Joseph McCar- JRIALS FOR perjury are the only logical end- thy, investigations of Communism will continue in ings to the McCarthy anti-Communist thril- much the same manner that the Wisconsin senator lers, which always take the same pattern: allega- has popularized. tions by the Senator that a government official The other apparent conclusion to be drawn or adviser is, or more often was, a Communist or from the support this measure has received is has Communist affiliations, followed by repeated that Congress, realizing how public interest in denials from the victim before one or more investi- the hearings has dropped since person after per- gating committees. Yet so far only two of these son has taken the stand and declined to answer stories have got as far as the third instalment. One on Fifth Amendment grounds, is attempting to of them bad a happy last chapter six weeks ago, make the hearings more lively by forcing wit- when perjury charges against Mr. Val Lorwin, nesses to testify. once employed by the State Department, were drop- The only encouraging sign at this time is the ped by the Department of Justice and the investi- inability of the two houses to come together on a gator discharged for misrepresenting the case when bill. As long as this stalemate continues, the Fifth obtaining the indictment. Amendment will continue to serve the purpose for -London Economist which it was included in the Constitution. * CURENTMOMVIE * WASHINGTON-While Congress others are offering a more con- has been sweating out its last hot servative platform. weather convulsions, vitally impor- Of course, the winner will never tant decisions are being made get an opportunity to carry out backstage in the .Pentagon which his election promises. Only candi- will affect your pocketbook and fu- date who is frankly admitting to ture taxes. the voters that he wants the job The "new look" for the military simply for the honor and prestige definitely has been abandoned. is Mac Baldrige, Nebraska Repub- Further military cuts are out ,the lican, onetime popular congress- window. ThehEisenhower hope of man from Nebraska. balancing the budget is being H. Y., Odessa, Texas-Governor chalked up privately as a sincere Shivers did recommend to the but hopeless hope. White House, following his trip to The drastic revision in military the Far East, that Japan should planning has been made as the re- be permitted to resume trade with sult of some gloomy reports on the Red China. international picture, plus the con- DepartmewtrlengThexsis sistent hammering of Gen. Matt Department ruling that Texas is Ridgway that footsoldiers must not permitted more than three .pmiles of offshore tidelands oil-the continue to be important, despite same amount as the other costal the A-bomb. states-is based upon the bound- One gloomy report comes from aries delineated by Thomas Jef- General James Van Fleet, former ferson. This was fully explained by U. S. commander in Korea, who Jack Tait, State Department solici- has been making a Far Eastern tor, during the tidelands oil hear- survey for Eisenhower. His mili- ings. He made it quite clear the tary thinking coincides with that of United States was not going to rec- Dr. Syngman Rhee-namely that ognize Texas' claim of 101/2 miles the United States should resume and that the 10 miles' claim, war in Korea. This, of course, has though put forward by Spain and been turned down. Mexico, at no time was recognized But what cannot be ignored is by the United States. Both Gover- Gen. Van Fleet's warning that the nor Shivers and Sen. Price Daniel Chinese Reds are going to invade must have known this at the time Formosa. If successful, this would the tidelands oil bill was passed. mean that the last vestiges of the Certainly it was made perfectly Chinese Nationalists would disap- clear during the hearings. pear 'and that the United States WaringthnPhering would have far less chance to bar Washigton Pipeline Red China from the UN. Also, such Sutton forces i Tennessee have an invasion would make ridiculous appealed to pro-Fascist Allan Zoll the much-publicized White House for funds to defeat Kefauver. In a announcement last year, in fulfill- telegram signed by R. B. Snowden ment of a campaign promise, that of Memphis, Zoll was asked to con- the f a ampign romse, hattribute $100 to fight Kefauver. the U. S. Seventh Fleet was being Zoll', American Patriots, Inc., is relieved of its job of keeping ChianKa-Shkfmataing on the attorney General's list as the mainland. Henceforth he would subversive and Fascist... . Con- be free to attack. 'gressman John McCormack of Now it develops, according to Massachusetts has never missed Gen. Van Fleet, that Formosa will dining with his wife in 34 years have to be protected again after of married life. all, and that the idea of using I... It pays political dividends to alland'sthats etherieaKofrusing have the Post Office Department Chiangs troops either in Korea or crack down on you. "Cowboy" Indochina was pure politics. Pink Williams, whose "Cattlemen's Hunphrey Gets Taken Convention" card inviting all cat- Frank Edwards, the AFL com- tlemen who voted for Ike to eat mentator, was staging one of his crow was banned from the mails, broadcasts from the radio press last month was elected lieutenant room of Congress during the fa- governor of Oklahoma. In Texas, mous filibuster. His guest was to Jim Wright, whose father's firm be Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Min- got a political crack-down from the nesota, a crusader against the bill Post Office Department, won out giving control of atomic produc- to be congressman from Fort tion to private industry. Worth. Edwards was rehearsing his Copywright 1954, by the Bell Syndicate broadcast preparatory to going on the air at 10 P.M., as Senator Humphrey approached at 9:55 andl peered through the glass door of the radio studio. Edwards had ev- ery appearance of being on the l1 4 igallfl at air. In fact, he kept reading the script aloud as the senator walked in. Edwards waved him to a chair, Sixty-Fourth Year kept on talking. Edited and managed by students of "And now," he said, as he con- the University of Michigan under the tinued talking into the micro- authority of the Board in Control of phone, "I have a special guest Student Publications, tonight who will explain the Sen- ate fight over atomic energy. He - Editorial Staff is Senator Humphrey of Minneso- Dianne A ta, who is up for re-election this Becky Aunrtr.....ManightEditor year and who seems to be adopt- Rona Friedman .......... Night Editor ing the policy o 'to hell with the Wally Eberhard.........Night Editor people of Minnesota."' Russ AuWerter.........Night Editor Humphrey jumped from his Sue Garfield........Women's Editor Humprey jumed rom Hanley Gurwin...,., . Sports Editor chair as if someone had hit him. Jack Horwitz......Assoc. Sports Editor It took him some moments to E. J. Smith.......Atsoc. Sports Editor realize that it was only 9:55 and Edwards did not go on the air Business Staff until 10 P.M. Dick Astromn........ Business Manager Empty Senate Honor Sue Garfield.. Assoc. Business Manager Strangest Senate race of the Lois Pollak.......Circulation Manager year is for the unexpired term of Bob Kovaks.......Advertising Manager the late Sen. Dwight Griswold, Nebraska Republican. His succes- Telephone NO 23-24-I sor will serve only two months- November and December - at Member .-L .L :..... lY..-t. . .- .... ...A - -.-._ . _T ettep TO THE EDITOR Personal Regard... WAS UNHAPPY to learn that my friend Chandler Davis has been recommended for dismiss- al. I have known him both at Harvard and at Michigan and al- ways had respet for him, intellec- tually and personally. However, I have never admired him as much as I do now for the stand he has taken against the Congressional Committee. To no lesser extent I admire his refusal to go through a brain-washing session with the Ad Hoc Committee in order to keep his job. It is my hope that the University will recognize this and will reinstate him. -Robert MNaughton A Matter of Principle.. THE UNGENEROUS terms in which President Hatcher has expressed his rather strained in- dignation about Dr. Davis tend to obscure the main fact at issue in the case. Uncomfortable as it may be forsthe University (it is not very comfortable for Dr. Davis himself), the fact is that Dr. Davis has chosen to make a stand upon a principle to which every self- respecting member of the faculty would ordinarily subscribe: the principle, namely, that, questions of moral depravity aside, the sole considerations governing the em- ployment or dismissal of a teacher and a scholar should be his com- petence as a teacher and a scholar. Dr. Davis is a mathematician and a teacher of mathmatics. No one has suggested that his skills as a mathematician and a teacher of mathematics have been affected in the slightest by his conduct be- fore the Clardy sub-committee. Hence it is clear that President Hatcher and his advisers have re- fused to apply the principle of competence. This refusal placed Dr. Davis in a curious and unfortunate di- lemma. One effective way for him to have brought the President and his advisers to consider his case in terms of competence would have been to clear their minds of ir- relevant considerations; and he could have done this by proving to them that he is politically sani- tary. But if he had done this, then he could never have been sure that it was his competence, not his political opinions, which had led to a favorable decision. Such a result would have made nonsense of his position vis-a-vis the Clardy sub-committee. Can the President and his ad- visers have seriously considered the implications of dismissing Dr. Davis now? Dr. Davis raised be- fore the Clardy sub-committee a question of constitutional rights, which the Federal courts are going to proceed to decide. Surely the President and his advisers do not 'presume to usurp the functions of the courts! Yet will not they, and the University of Michigan, look ridiculous-ridiculous a n d shamefully craven- if the courts should vindicate Dr. Davis' appeal to the Constitution? David Braybrooke A Tribute To Dean Edmondson It is with a sense of irrepar- able loss that the Executive Committee of the University of Michigan Annuitants Associa- tion records the death, on June 4, 1954, of the first president and one of the founders of the organization, James B. Edmon- son, Dean - Emeritus of the School of Education. Although not unmindful of the uncertain- ties of life attendant on ad- vanced age, his associates were grievously shocked by his sud- den decease at the close of a day spent actively in his normal pursuits. It would seem that they had anticipated an indefi- nite prolongation of the bound- less energy and varied interests which not only had character- ized his long academic career but was continuously manifest- ed after his retirement in 1953. The distinguished achieve- ments of Dean Edmonson as an educator and a citizen will be properly recognized in the an- nals of the University, the State, and the Nation. For his leader- ship had wide -ramifications in the world of education, serving, as he did, on many national, and even international, councils and commissions, one of which, at the time of his death, was concerned to foster close cultur- al ties between the United States and Canada. These not- able accomplishments may well be left to the competent ap- praisal of educational history, rather than to this modest trib- ute of associates whom he brought together in a bond of fellowship and mutual helpful- IN HIS ANNUAL budget mes- sage, transmitted last Jan. 21, President Eisenhower renewed a request he had made just before the adjournment of the first ses- sion of the Eighty-third Congress a year ago this week. The national debt wat then "close to the legal limit of $275 billions." The Pres- ident asked that this limit be raised lest cash balances f a 11 "dangerously low." In response to the President's original request the House voted to increase the statutory debt limit from its present $275 billions to $290 billions., Largely because of the personal influence of Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia the measure never came to a vote in the Senate. It is not necessary to put the legislation through the House again, but it again seems to be an open question as to how it will fare this year in the Senate Finance Committee. The big squeeze on the Treasury, so far as operating within the debt limit is concerned, comes in the second half of the calendar year. The principal reason for this is to be found in the so-called Mills Plan, adopted in 1950. Under the Mills Plan corporate income taxes, which up to that time were payable in quarterly installments over the entire year, were to be moved up gradually until by 1955 they would become payable in their entirety in the first six months. Last year, under this schedule, 80 per cent of this tax had become due be- tween January and June, leaving but 20 per cent to be collected between July and December. Some of those who opposed increasing the debt limit last year are now pointing to the fact that the Treasury "sur- vived" without such authoriza- ; tion as evidence of the correct- ness of their position. That de- pends a good deal on what one means by "survival." The fact is that at one point toward the close of 1953 the Treasury reached a point where it had exhausted it borrowing power completely and was down to a cash balance of $2.8 billions, which is roughly half the amount regarded as consonant .with sound fiscal management. Nor is that the entire story. Be. cause the Senate committee eleo- ted to maintain this arbitrary, ceiling on the borrowing power of the Treasury-which, as everyone knows, has no control over either' appropriations of tax rates-the latter's freedom of choice in the management of its affairs was' seriously curtailed. It was unable to take advantage of the favorable; money market conditions prevail- ing in the fall to raise funds through the sale of bonds. At the(I same time it was compelled to resort to various makeshift and undignified devices. This fall, with' only 10 per cent of 1953 corporate taxes payable between July and~ December under the Mills Plan schedule, the squeeze on the Trea- sury will almost certainly be worse than a year ago. Some have urged as an alterna- tive to increasing the Treasury's' borrowing power that the same result might be achieved by re- defining the term "public debt." -New York Times __ _ DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN The Daily Official Bulletin is an official publication of the University of Michigan for which the Michigan Daily assumes no editorial responsi- bility. Publication in it is construc- tive notice to all members of the University. Notices shouldbe sent in TYPEWRITTEN form to Room 3510 Administration Building before 3 p.m. the day preceding publication. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1954 VOL. LXIV, No. 33S Notices Hopwood contest manuscripts must be in the Hopwood Room on Friday, August 6, by 4:30 p.m. Veterans who expect to receive edu- cation and training allowance under Public Law 550 (Korea GI Bill) must report to Room 555 Administration Building, Office of veterans' Affairs, between 8:00 a.m. Monday, August 2 and 5:00 p.m. Friday, August 6 to fill in and sign MONTHLY CERTIFICA- TIONS. VA Form 7-1996a. Women's Swimming Pool - Recrea- tion Swimming Hours. During the week of August 2, the hours for women are as follows: 5:00- 6:00 and 7:30-9:00-August 2-6, Monday through Friday (Friday night will be Family Night.) The pool will close for the summer on Saturday, August 7. Art Print Loans must be returned to Room 510 Admin. Bldg. on August 5-6 between the hours of 9-12 and 1-5 or on Saturday, August 7 from 8-12. A fine of twenty-five cents (25c) a day will be charged for all overdue pictures EXAMINATION SCHEDULE All students who desire credit for work done in the summer session will be required to take examinations at the close of the session. Examinations in Eight-week Courses Hr. of Recitation Time of Exam 8.........Thursday 8-10 9 ..................... Friday 8-10 10--.................Thursday 2-4 11.................... Friday 2-4 1 ........T...... hursday 4-6 2...............Thursday 10-12 3 .................... Friday 10-12 All other hours............,Friday 4-6 All student groups interested in a booth at registration should make a type-written request to the Registrar's Office as soon as possible. Law School Admission Test: Candi- dates taking the Law School Admission Test on August 7 are requested to re- port to Room 100, Hutchins Hall at 8:45 Saturday morning. PERSONNEL REQUESTS ..Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergen- doff, Consulting Engineers, have posi- tions open in their Kansas City, Mis- souri, office for Civil Engineering gra- duates. The firm specializes in the de- sign and supervision of construction of major highway and railway bridges, express highways and turnpikes. For additional information concern- ing these and other employment op- portunities, contacththe Bureau of Ap- pointments, 3528 Administration Bldg., Ext. 371. Lectures Linguistic Institute Lecture. "Cur- rent Research on Bilingualism." Uriel Weinreich, Columbia University. 7:30 p.m., Rackham Amphitheater. Academic Notices Doctoral Examination for James Pat- rick Jans, Mathematics; thesis: "On the Indecomposable Representations of Al- gebras," Thursday, August 5, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 4:00 p.m. Chairman, R. M. Thrall. Seminar in Applied Mathematics will meet Thursday, August 5, at 4:00 in Rm. 247 West Engineering. Speaker: Mr. John Line. Topic: Harmonic Func- tions in the Semi-Infinite Strip. Seminar in Mathematical Statistiest Friday, August 6, at 2 p.m. in Roon 3201 Angell Hall. Mrs. Chou will speak on the Behrens-Fisher test. Doctoral Examination for David Ste ( venson, English Language and Litera ture; thesis: "The Critical Principles and Devices of Max Beerbohm," ri day, August 6, East Council Room, Rackham Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, R. C. Boys. Doctoral Examination for Rud I. Meyerstein, Romance Languages and Literatures; thesis: "A PositionalDe. termination of semantic Equivalences in French, English, and German," Prl. day, August 6, West Council Room,, Rackham Bldg., at 2:00 p.m. Chairman, Ernst Puigram. Concerts Carillon Recital: 7:15 Thursday ev.e- ning, August 5, by Percival Price, Univ versity Carillonneur. The program of American works will include-Samuel Barber's Suite. Menotti's Six Compoul- tions for Carillon; Nina Rota's Cam- pana a sera, Campana a festa; A Song for Bells by Daniel Pinkham, Theme and variations for Carillon by Theo. Rusterholz, Piece for Carillon by Karl Magnuson, and Carillon Prelude by Tom Kinkead. Exhibitions Clements Library. Museum Collections. General Library. Women as Authoe, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. =gyp- tian Antiquities-a loan exhibit from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Michigan Historical Collection. The University in 1904. Museum of Art. Three Women Paint- ers. Exhibition of Recent Publications and of work in progress in linguistic geo-'> graphy and dialectology. 2-5 p.m., July 28 - August 6 1954. Sat. 10-12. 3015 Rackham Building. y Events Today The Marriage of Figaro will be pre- sented by the Department of Speech and The School of Music at 8 p m. i the Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Thurs day, Friday, Saturday and Monday, Au- gust 5, 6, 7 and 9. Tickets are avail- able at the Lydia Mendelssohn Bor Of-{ fice from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The International Tea, sponsored by the International Center and the In ternational Student Association, will be held in the Madelon Pound House, 1024 Hill Street, Thursday, August 5, at 4:30 until 6 o'clock. The Economics Clam Chowder and Marching Society: Dr. Rudolf Richter, who is visiting Ann Arbor this summer from the University of Frankfurt am Main, will be the guest speaker of the Economics Department's graduate dis- cussion group this Thursday. His topic is: "Some Problems in Oligopoly The-m ory." An informal discussion will fol. low. Thursday, August 5. 8:00 p.m. Rackham Bldg., West Conference Room. Sailing Club meets this Thursday, 7 p.m., In the Union. Everyone wel- comed. Enthusiasm not experiene necessary. The Sociedad ,Hispanica of the Da partment of Romance Languages of tW University will hold a meeting on Thursday, August 5, at 8 p.m., in the Kalamazoo Room of the Michigan Lea- gue. Professor Enrique Anderson-Im- bert will speak in Spanish on the sub- Sect, "La Vida Intelectual en Madrid;". and Professor William Merhab will speak in English on the subject, "An American Professor in South America." The meeting is open to allIntrest in Spanish culture and civilization. ComngEvntest: The Federal Debt Ceiling At the Michigan.. LIVING IT UP with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis PEOPLE WHO LIKE Martin and Lewis might well enjoy this film. People who like Martin and Lewis are clearly capable of anything. This is, I understand, the third time around for the story on which the movie is based. It started life as a movie appearing in the thirties, and emerg- ed again more, recently as the Broadway produc- tion Hazel Flagg. As the above name indicates, the protagon- ists of the two earlier versions were women. In Living It Up, the name is changed to Homer Flagg and with this slight alteration the role is filled by Jerry Lewis. Mr. Lewis is a railroad station agent in Desert sions but I -can make a shrewd guess as to how the Martin-Lewis abortion was achieved. Look, for instance, at this episode: Doctor Martin has just falsely asserted that Lewis has radiation poisoning-whereupon his framed copy of the Hippocratic oath falls off the wall and hits him on the head (a million laughs in it- self). Then Martin tops this by clutching his head and wailing, "Somebody get a doctor." I am sure that somewhere in every studio there is a file of such time-worn mots, to 'be used as the occasion demands. This one would read, "Somebody get a blank." Then all the script "writer" has to do is fill this convenient blank with doctor, lawyer, cop, etc. as the circumstances warrant. Multiply this operation a few hundred times and you have a ready-made script, created with scis- sors and paste and without the tiresome nonsense I m