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...Malden, close up, you could see the President was wearing heavy make-up. On his face was eye-brow pencil and rouge; his jowels sagged, and he looked very old. "Now all I want you to do is examine the record . . . . See how Republicans have voted in Congress . . . . then go and vote for your own interest . . . keep things the way they are . . . vote Democrat." The crowd was with him. "Let me introduce my biggest asset." Truman was beaming. "Margic, come here." Margaret waved. Then, one by one, the welcoming committee stopped up to the platform and shook hands with...
Chairman William Cartwright mopped his brow and thought a moment. What was the now-lost customer's complaint? Something about "Light Brunswick Green"? The chairman sent for a can of the paint in question. There it was, marked with the firm's label, "Light Brunswick Green." He opened it. The paint was bright...
...meeting of Ike and Nixon at Wheeling was reported in mocking purple prose by the Post's Murray Kempton: "A star was born unto the Republican Party last night . . . Nixon stood up before chilled and adoring thousands ... an antiaircraft beacon's rays upon his brow for a halo . . . his voice soft, hushed and equipped with a catch of rare contrivance, with Pat's eyes shining up at him and soap of infinite purity bubbling over all ... Eisenhower was very glad to play the slow violin accompaniment [to] 'Richard Faces Life...
...Tate exhibit, e.g., his 1931 Genesis, showing a heavy-featured woman clutching her pregnant, outthrust belly. "Repellent as ever," observed the Times. But no one was much shocked this time, though the public still preferred his powerfully modeled portrait heads. The famous ones-Albert Einstein with his lofty brow and fiercely energetic hair; Nehru, smoldering with deep-eyed intensity; Haile Selassie, imperious in thin-drawn pride; Somerset Maugham, his expression twisted and wry-had the impact of enormously effective sketches, superbly drawn...
Whether or not the American people decide to turn their backs on Richard Nixon, he cannot shake off the large aura of unethicalness that $18,000 has placed above his brow. All the enumerations and all the charges of smear and all the evidence of the catholicity of his practise may prove he is clean in intention, but they do not diminish the unwholesome odor that a privately endowed slush fund always radiates...