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...reader and his listeners are possibly sneering across the table at each other. Ah, well, there you have it. Harvard gownies, unfortunately, consider their as yet incipient talents so fine that they cannot possibly demean themselves or waste their time in ordinary political activity. The curse of the daily round of dinner-table conversations, naps, and trips to Cronin's hangs pall-like as ever over the community. We give notice, however, that in the opportunity to campaign for one party (or the other) the languid student has an extraordinary opportunity to serve his own political principles...
Died. Mildred Ella ("Babe") Didrikson Zaharias, 42, sinewy, square-jawed Texas tomboy who played baseball with a House of David team, barnstormed nationally in basketball, boasted "Ah'm gonna lick you!" and did in 632 out of 634 women's athletic events in her teens, set records (later broken) in the 80-meter hurdles and javelin throw in the 1932 Olympics (where she also tied for first place in the high jump, was dropped to second for her unorthodox style), discovered golf in 1931 and was soon outdriving men ("You've got to loosen your girdle...
...Ah Need Your He'p." As the campaign party moved through Los Angeles and San Francisco, Estes Kefauver seemed as placid and happy as ever-but inwardly he was beginning to boil. Campaigning with Adlai was all right, but the closely timed schedule sort of cramped Kefauver's style. He wanted to get out by himself and start beating the bushes, taking all the time he needed to shake every hand he could find. He means to do everything that energy and ambition can accomplish to win the election. The Vice President's chair is not quite...
...presidential nomination. But he is relatively young, and there are other years and other elections. The chances are good that Iowa farmers, New Hampshire lumberjacks and California avocado growers will some day be confronted again by the tall man with the outstretched right hand and the quiet drawl: "Ah'm Estes Kefauver. Ah'm running for President and Ah need your...
...With $59 between them they took an option on a rundown 440-acre plot beside the highway in as prejudiced a part of Georgia as anyone could find. A Louisville builder donated the rest of the money they needed, and they called the place Koinonia (pronounced coy-no-nee-ah), Greek for fellowship. Now the fellowship farm is fighting for its life...