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...major part of his talk dealt with the nation's economic situation--"We not only have peace, but we have prosperity to boot." Nixon foresaw further economic growth and, if Eisenhower and a Republican Congress are elected, even greater wealth and security...
...civilian engineer on Wake Island, I had a ringside seat from which to observe a demonstration of basic guts by a group of U.S. marines fresh out of boot camp. Sergeant McKeon may have shown poor judgment, but that's not sufficient reason for busting an obviously dedicated man out of the Corps with a bad-conduct discharge...
...Louis had never heard the sad sound before. Last week, after watching First Baseman Stan ("The Man") Musial go hitless in four times at bat, after watching him make two errors and boot away a game with the Dodgers, 5-3, Busch Field bleacherites finally blew up. They booed the best Cardinal of them...
...loud and bumptious Candide running open-armed to embrace a shiny new world. What he grabs is Marilyn Monroe, who has stopped off on her slow progress from the Ozarks to Hollywood to earn some carfare as a "chantoosie" in a third-rate nightclub. Murray quivers to his boot heels when Marilyn slithers onstage to sing That Old Black Magic in a nasal whine, while fluttering a bilious green scarf in a deadly parody of Hildegarde's continental airs and graces...
...character and uncompromising integrity are beginning to seem a little archaic, just as the big house seems to be an anachronism in the heart of a town daily becoming more industrialized and ugly. What is worse, the judge's grandson, a fine lad and a Princeton man to boot, cannot sustain the oaklike traditions which he so admires in the old man. He marries the wrong girl, is not much of a lawyer, and after he has fought in World War I, his sense of values is as battered as his body...