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...Shambles. At 5 a.m., Dewey let it be known that he was "still confident." His mother gave up and went to bed. In San Francisco, Earl Warren told reporters wanly: "Even if the 81st Congress is called on to decide the election, the Republicans still...
...waged right up to Election Day-the fight for control of the Senate (TIME, Oct. 11). It was still such a dingdong race in twelve doubtful states, that no one dared predict its outcome. If the Republicans failed to return a majority to the senior chamber of the 81st Congress, they would be unable to run its all-important committees. This fight, in fact, was a prime reason why Harry Truman and Tom Dewey took to the road last week (see below). Dewey, especially, was campaigning not so much for his own candidacy as for control of the 81st Congress...
...April,* had a very good chance of regaining a "nearly 100% perfect arm." Bouquets In London, Queen Mary - in powder blue as usual - got fan mail, gun salutes, the cheers of crowds, a little cake with icing, and a toast from her family and friends at lunch, on her 81st birthday...
...Cleveland, five of the nation's 67 surviving G.A.R. veterans turned up at their 81st annual encampment, elected one of their younger members, 102-year-old Robert W. Rownd of Ripley, N.Y., as commander in chief, prepared to look around for next year's camp site. EURJ In Alaska, after a look at Fairbanks' ili-famed row of brothels known as "the line," Dr. W. T. Harrison, a district director of the U.S. Public Health Service, said: "I did not think there was any place under the American flag where prostitution is as flagrant...
Even the unusual manner of his execution-by internal severance of an artery following spinal anaesthesia-testified to Old 81st's greatness. Veterinarians chose this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body under the elms of the Turner ranch. As the greatest sire in Hereford history, Old 81st had already provided the epitaph for the bronze tablet that will mark his grave...