The original 1953 Broadway production of "Picnic, " for instance, ran for 477 performances, and the film version, which starred William Holden, Kim Novak and Rosalind Russell, was one of the biggest box-office smashes of 1955.
Rich Armitage's mean-spirited partisanship is especially evident in the fact that neither he, nor Mr. Powell nor their lawyer, then-State Department Legal Advisor William Taft IV, saw fit to inform the White House that Armitage was the source of the Novak leak.