Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drew Pearson's day-after-election column: "I surveyed the close-knit group around Tom Dewey, who will take over the White House 79 days from now. Here is the line...
...explain figures that continued to defy their predictions; the smug expression on the face of Republican Campaign Manager Brownell as he twice claimed a Dewey victory; the glum face of Democratic National Chairman McGrath as he first expressed confidence in his candidate, the camera's slow pan around G.O.P. headquarters after dawn, the empty, gaily decorated Hotel Roosevelt ballroom, with no one left to hear a victory speech that no one was to deliver...
...such exceptions were few. Shocked and shaken, Pundit Arthur Krock of the New York Times confessed the press's sins of omission: "We didn't concern ourselves, as we used to, with the facts. We accepted the polls, unconsciously. I used to go to Chicago and around the country, every election, to see for myself. This time, I was so sure, I made no personal investigation . . . We have to go back to work on the old and classic lines-to the days when reporters really dug in, without any preconception...
Once, when an internal revenue man came around to question him, suspicious of the number of exemptions he claimed, Papa Conway discovered that he had forgotten one; instead of paying more, he got a credit...
Maldarelli's star ex-pupil is 30-year-old Mitzi Solomon, but strangely enough, none of the nudes in Maldarelli's show (see above) was named Mitzi. She staged an exhibition of her own last week, just around the corner from the master's, and Maldarelli did not bother to see it. Her work had grown a world apart from...