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...never smoothed off all his hillbilly edges, wriggled with shyness, protesting: "Aw, naw, general. But I've been reading a lot about you." After posting a 131 in the Celebrities Tournament, Sam struck out for Chicago...
...chilly street corner in London's threadbare Hammersmith, a Tory soapboxer looked out over the crowd of housewives, clerks and workingmen. "What's left in your wage packet after this government has taken its share of taxes and national insurance?" he shouted. "Aw, stuff a sock in it!" yelled a heckler in the crowd and promptly launched into a speech of his own. He had spent six'weeks in a hospital, his wife had a baby, his mother got spectacles and new dentures, his brother got a long-needed truss, and "all under this Labor government...
Peek Up a Rope. If necessary, he will twist an arm. Last year he called John Sonnett, who was taking over the Justice Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett was punished with rough rides on the Merry-Go-Round. The column is equally open about rewarding those who do cooperate: some newsmen spot Pearson's sources simply by seeing who gets his backpats...
...note of philosophic cheer was sounded, however by a "progressive five-year older," who callously explained, "Aw! Dat bunny was getting too old anyhow...
...other footnote dropped from the final paragraph of the Henry Wallace affair. When the President called the Commerce Department to give Wallace his walking papers, Nover reported, "Wallace's response was so gentle and friendly that he, Truman, was almost ready to say to Wallace: 'Aw forget it, Henry...