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Democrats nominated a protégé of Soapy's who was not the betting favorite. Lieutenant Governor John Burley Swainson, a boyish-looking 35, lost both legs below the knees on an Army night patrol in France during World War II when a land mine blew up under him. The victory of another legless veteran, Republican Charles Potter, who got elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 1952, encouraged Swainson to enter politics despite his handicap. He beat out favored Secretary of State James Hare by a decisive 70,000 votes...
...overly sentimental; the boys seem to have grown up surrounded by sweet, long-suffering mothers and avuncular lieutenants, with hardly a Nazi in sight. But these scenes from the boys' past merely serve as counterpoint to the adventure at the bridge and as clues to the variety of boyish responses, which range from terror to heroism. Gregor's bitter little novel labors no point, nor does it have to. The futility it illustrates would have been depressing enough even if it had been grown men who held the bridge. Its special dimension of bitterness grows, without overstatement, from...
...share earlier this year. Every time Polaroid's stock moves two points, the Lands' wealth rises or falls by $1,522,000. Their stock has risen in value by $86.8 million in the last 18 months alone. The genius behind Polaroid's success, bright-eyed, boyish-looking "Din" Land, likes to spend much of his time in his lab in Cambridge, Mass., where he works endlessly on new ideas. Polaroid is now working on a two-minute color film for its camera. Land believes that, with present and planned products, Polaroid's growth prospects are excellent...
...Johnson's renowned political cunning showed forth, too. A greying 51, veteran of 23 years in Congress, he pointed up boyish-looking, 43-year-old Jack Kennedy's comparative youth and inexperience by warning that the "forces of evil," meaning international Communism, "will have no mercy for innocence, no gallantry toward inexperience." With another sly jab, Johnson hit at the Kennedy drive to corral convention delegates: "I would not presume to tell my fellow Democrats that I am the only man they should consider for this job or to demand that any delegate or delegation vote...
...Democrats chose Idaho's U.S. Senator Frank Church, 35. as their keynote speaker because his boyish good looks promised television a new generation's outlook. True to the promise, handsome Frank Church, the Senate's youngest member, keynoted a change in Democratic policy-of a sort. Instead of the economic gloom that had sustained his elders since he was a toddler, he promised global doom; instead of the old "Don't-Let-'em-Take-It-Away" theme of 1952, he urged "Don't-Let-'em-Spend-It-That-Way" for the prosperous 1960s...