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...line. No one smokes, because Freeman objects to the lingering odor (he dropped smoking years ago when he found that the buying, lighting, smoking and crushing out of cigarettes, "wasted" 8½ hours a week). Freeman also has a newspaperman's dislike of office whistlers. He will bolt from his chair, at the cost of precious seconds, to bawl out a whistling copy...
...Crossfire. Privately, publicly, in conventions, by petition, by resolution, Southerners shouted at one another that, as Fielding Wright had said, the time had sure come to bolt. The difficulty was that, politically, the South had no place to go.' Was there no way out of this dilemma? Southern governors, meeting at Tallahassee, passed a resolution urging Harry Truman to back...
...Bolt. Just what they hoped to accomplish-or how they would go about it-no one seemed to know. So far, only Alabama and Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...
Even the rebels themselves were careful to leave the door ajar. Candidate Wright explained, with careful ambiguity: "This is not a bolt. This is not a fourth party. I say to you that we are the true Democrats of the Southland and these United States." To be doubly sure that there was a way of scrambling back, the rebels agreed to convene again next October to see how they were doing...
...More Questions? In London, ten-year-old Roy Scott asked his mother: "What's a thunderbolt?", got the answer as one hit the roof with a blinding flash. In Montrose, Colo., lightning knocked down Austin Baca, who arose just before a second bolt knocked him down again...