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Martha Taft, the Senator's wife, sailed into a meeting of Republican women in Philadelphia with a bouquet of raspish phrases. After referring to "delirium Trumans" and observing that "to err is Truman" (both times neglecting to credit the phrases to Gossipist Walter Winchell, who shortly set the record straight), she widened her traverse and characterized the Democratic Party: "a freak of nature . . . with a Communist front, a reactionary rear, and a know-nothing middle...
Waiting at the dockside to greet her, and to make political capital, was a Communist delegation led by Soviet Ambassador Alexandr Bogomolov. Beside the beaming, suntanned envoy was Madame Bogomolov, carrying a big armload of flowers. While cameras clicked, she exchanged her bouquet for a sheaf of wheat. Briskly the Voroshilov's crew opened the hatches; there, as the lyrical Agence France Presse reported: "Russian wheat glittered under the sun of France." Later, bands played the French and Russian anthems and Ambassador Bogomolov made a speech in praise of Franco-Russian amity. Then 100 token sacks of Russian amity...
Among railroadmen, Alleghany Corp.'s Bob Young has been as popular as a bee in a bridal bouquet. Particularly annoying has been his constant buzzing in the public's ear about the horse & buggy way of running transcontinental trains so that passengers must change at Chicago. Last week he was at it again in full-page newspaper ads(see cut): "A hog can cross the country without changing trains...
Franklin D. Roosevelt's stamp collection, appraised at $100,000, was up at auction in Manhattan. About half was sold; it brought $134,550. Curiosa: 52 "Brickbat & Bouquet" covers. Philatelist Roosevelt had happily kept envelopes addressed to "Dishonorable Franklin Deficit Roosevelt," "Plutocrat F. D. Roosevelt, Owner of 4 Estates, Member of 13 Clubs, White House," "The Sit-Down Politician," "White Father of the Pretty Bubbles." A Manhattan department store...
...desk in an alcove of his book-lined study sat the Prime Minister. There was a large bouquet of red roses in front of him. Two feet away, where Mr. King could see it with the slightest turn of his head, hung a portrait of the Prime Minister's mother in a pose resembling Whistler's mother. The picture was illuminated from below by a table lamp...