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...earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince-nezed, courtly Sol Bloom authored the revised Neutrality Act of 1939, helped pilot Lend-Lease through the House in 1941, in 1945 was a delegate to the San Francisco Conference that founded...
...players have conquered the American reactionary agents and jumping jacks of dollar imperialism who fill those of us of the Hungarian People's Republic with disgust," Hungarian Radio Commentator Gyoergy Szepesi prattled into the microphone. The only ringside commentator at the world-champion table tennis tournament in Stockholm, ardent, 25-year-old Communist Szepesi was not going to pass up his chance to get in a plug for the new order...
Family Honeymoon (Universal-International) devotes itself strenuously to the leering old gag of setting up an obstacle course between the nuptial bed and a pair of ardent newly weds (Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray). Among the obstacles: the Other Woman (Rita Johnson), the rigors of a tour through the Grand Canyon, the constant company of the bride's three small children by a former marriage...
...less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both tell it well. O'Connor is a more ardent partisan of Thomas than Cleaves, and heaps more scorn on the other generals...
...Communist press last week welcomed back "the Paavo Nurmi of Finnish politics." Red newspapers damned the release of Tanner (whom they called "worse than Laval and Quisling"), and threatened "dire consequences." With a cautious eye on the Kremlin, bull-necked Premier Karl August Fagerholm, Tanner's most ardent disciple, did not immediately invite the old fire-eater back into the government. Tanner declared that he would retire to his farm near Helsinki, "to write books and raise forests." Before he left Helsinki, he had one more political pronouncement. "I am proud of the Socialist Party's fight...