After Thinking It Over

The Very Rev. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson, still talking about his last trip around the Soviet Union (in a plane which Moscow placed at his disposal), once more insisted that everything was just fine behind the Iron Curtain. "They told me there was complete freedom for their churches," he burbled happily. "I am not saying 'new liberty,' because the same liberty existed before the war. [Now the Russians] have re-emphasized it."

A jurist cannot speak out on controversial subjects, "on or off the record," noted Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge, who may have been taking a little dig at some of his more gabby brethren of the court. "All [a justice] can do is talk in platitudes and generalities about things that don't matter ... So why should people spend their time listening?"

Salvador Dali, appearing on a television show with Cartoonist Al Capp, insisted on drawing a special Dali window in every one of Capp's shmoos--"so that you can see the horizons beyond." Later, Salvador recalled a previous artistic collaboration. "I used to draw with Picasso," he boasted. "First I'd draw a line, then he'd draw a line . . . We had fun."

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