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Torment is a Swedish movie starring Alf Kjellin as an artistic, sensitive Scandinavian preppie who falls in love with the local tobacco shop salesgirl, played by Mai Zetterling. The third member of the tormented triangle is the boy's middle-aged, lecherous Latin teacher, a tyrant named Caligula...
...last was Warren G. Harding in 1920. Since then, Al Smith, Franklin Roosevelt, Alf Landon, Tom Dewey and Adlai Stevenson have demonstrated the affinity of governors for top place on the ticket...
...giving him a plurality of 9,542,354 over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, whose total was 26,033,066. Ike's margin of actual votes was the largest ever awarded a Republican candidate, but still ran second to Franklin Roosevelt's 11,072,014-vote plurality over Republican Alf Landon...
Publisher Stauffer was born in Hope, Kans., where his father had taken over a general store from the father of President Eisenhower before the Eisenhowers moved to Denison, Texas, where Ike was born.† At the University of Kansas one of Stauffer's closest friends was Classmate Alf M. Landon, and Stauffer headed a Landon-for-President committee...
...said one of them last week, after a nasty fight with a policeman, "you shoulda seen that copper! One eye 'angin' out and 'is nose all over the side of 'is face, 'e wasn't 'alf slammed. Coo, they really 'ung one on 'im. And the funny thing-we 'ad to laugh-'e said 'e was gettin' married next week...