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...once the British were not the villains of the piece. And, with their favorite bait removed from the ring, most Irishmen were at a loss to tell what the fight was about at all. "This," wrote the Dublin correspondent of London's News Chronicle, as 1,800,000 Irishmen prepared to go to the polls this week, "is the strangest general election that ever took place. Nobody wants it. Nobody knows what it's about, and nobody, except the candidates, seems to care how it will...
...needle-nosed lawyer who was once a Republican, began with a demand that each committeeman sign a pledge dedicating all his 1948 campaign work to the nominees of the Democratic Party, forsaking all others. It was high time, snorted Rollin McNitt, that Wallace supporters, "either fish or cut bait." They had no business backing a third-party candidate in California's Democratic primary...
...Bait for the Big Ones...
...American Red Cross, concerned over food conservation, advised housewives to stop using old cheese to bait mousetraps. Sprinkle it in the soup or pop it in the biscuits, instead, it advised...
...enough to go to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. There in his first year he copped top honors and a scholarship. He went to work for the May Co. and was making $50,000 a year as merchandising manager when he decided to join Broadway. The chief bait: a share in the profits and a stock option deal that may make him (if he succeeds in his promise to double the store's profits) a millionaire within three years...