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Pulverized Prestige. Stunned by the G.O.P. showing, the Democrats reacted with initial incredulity. "I imagine it's a sort of standoff," said Democratic National Chairman John Bailey. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, his coattails shredded and his prestige pulverized by a near-total G.O.P. sweep in his home state of Minnesota, was more candid. "Misery loves company," he said...
Died. Sir Gerald Dodson, 82, Recorder of London (senior judge at Old Bailey criminal court) from 1937 to 1959 and one of Britain's wittiest justices; of leukemia; in London. Among his shafts: he told a defendant claiming to have a split personality, "Both of you will have to go to prison for 18 months," advised a man accused of threatening to shoot a girl because she would not go out with him, "You can't make love at the point of a revolver with any success," and informed a witness claiming that in Nigeria a man could...
...excels when it comes to the great American ritual of the universal arm squeeze and the indiscriminate smile. Thursday for instance he took his campaign to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, a few blocks from the spot where Barnum and Bailey's pitched tent when they made a special stop in that borough years ago. FDR Jr. pulled over on Eastern Parkway in front of a brightly lit cafeteria. Facing the building he looked out at Crown Heights proper, an old neighborhood of Italians and orthodox Jews. Behind him was Bedford-Stuyvesant, the most salvageable of the city...
...JACK BAILEY Los Angeles...
...besides: a lefthander. Experts still sneered at Karl's credentials. For one thing, he had rarely chosen to fight away from Germany and the tender solicitude of German referees-like the one who forgot how to count when Mildenberger was flattened in the first round by unknown Dave Bailey last September. (Mildenberger eventually won the fight on points...