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...Tall, bald Postmaster General Farley (Paul Parks) "Keeps his popularity forever hail and hearty, by finding jobs for everyone in the Democratic party...
Stung by his opponent's tactics, bald, amiable Mr. Cooke charged that Mayor Wilson and his allies had succeeded in ''muffling" a Grand Jury investigation of Philadelphia vice ordered by Socialite Judge Curtis Bok, who is also up for reelection. Ordered to explain to the Grand Jury what he meant by "muffling," Mr. Cooke last week took the witness stand, floundered: "Well, the word-muffled-as I understand it, is generally applied to drums. In other words, you have heard of a muffled drum The muffling . . . simply insulates the drum from the outside influences which in that...
From 1922 until last June when he died of food poisoning, the Seventh District of Massachusetts heartily elected and re-elected a bald, magnetic, music-loving Irishman. For Representative William P. ("Billy") Connery Jr., House Labor Committee Chairman, appealed to a big majority in the shoe-manufacturing, textile towns north of Boston. Moreover he was famous as co-sponsor of the Wagner-Connery National Labor Relations Act, of the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill...
Last week Seventh District voters chose Billy Connery's successor: a bald, magnetic, music-loving Irishman. Add seven years to and subtract about 15 pounds from Lawrence J. ("Larry") Connery and the result is a twin for his late brother Billy, whom he had served as secretary since 1922. Nineteen years ago Sergeant Billy refused a promotion because it entailed separation from Sergeant Larry. Both became lawyers after they reached Washington. Last year Billy swamped his Republican opponent by a 3-2 margin; last week Larry won by 3-2. His first official announcement: he would re-introduce...
...stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that fly over are ordinary broad-winged hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, eastern red-tailed hawks. Among thousands, however, are the rare golden eagles, turkey vultures, bald eagles, an occasional gyrfalcon flying down from Greenland...