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Local entrepreneur, sportsman, and presser of men's pants, Benjamin Jacobson, was definitely nor the least interested spectator at the opening session of Dick Harlow's course in character building. Benny, resplendant in blue blazer, gilt buttons, and gray fiannels, felt that "with a few breaks and a bottle of Energine we ought to keep a clean slate...
...before the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee to testify to Lilienthal's experience, ability and ideology. Scientists,' religious groups, plain citizens rallied to the Lilienthal cause. A Washington Post poll found 68% of the nation's Republican press pro-Lilienthal, only 14% anti. Atomic Trail-Blazer Albert Einstein urged confirmation. M.I.T.'s Dr. Karl Compton warned that many atomic scientists might take Lilienthal's defeat as the cue to pull out of the vast atomic projects...
Recalling with some pride his adventures in local boudairs and bagnios, he offered what he described as "humble but trenchant" advice to aspirants of the higher life: "Keep your hair long, and your fingers nails long," he said. "Remain at room temperature but warm before serving. Wear a blue blazer and gay-flannel ducks...
...last week, as Detroit's final election drew near, Dick Frankensteen looked less like a trail blazer than a man just feeling his way around in a lot of trees. He had spoken as few ringing words about labor as possible. The reason: even his enemies in the union wanted him to be mayor (and thus out of union officialdom) so there was little point in it. Instead, to woo the public, he harangued audiences about Detroit's dirty alleys, its street-railway fares, tried hard to be everyman's friend...
...Trail Blazer. In West New Brighton, N.Y., Thomas Calabori, who used to make dental forceps, found himself at last in a dentist's chair. When the dentist reached for a forceps, Calabori jumped from the chair through a closed window, dropped ten feet to the sidewalk, persuaded the dentist that the tooth no longer hurt, succeeded in canceling the appointment...