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...quieter (loudspeakers are muted this year). Admission to many places is 25?; others are as low as a nickel, as high as $1 (top for Streets of Paris with Gypsy Rose Lee in aloof undress). Billy Rose's Aquacade (40?-99?) is back with Eleanor Holm Rose and Buster Crabbe (in Johnny Weissmuller's place...
...Racket-Buster Dewey last autumn became merely Buster Dewey, in sarcastic appreciation of his age, 38. Now Buster began to get some of the old meaning back. But much remained to be done, perhaps too much, before Mr. Dewey became the G. 0. P. nominee; when it came to lining up delegates, harelike Mr. Dewey hadn't yet overtaken Robert the Tortoise Taft...
...most attractive qualities was his knack of apparently muffing things. Industrious, hopeful, comfortable, the Dagwood Bumstead of American politics, Ohio's 50-year-old Senator was unprofessional, artless, refreshingly without a workable cure-all for every ill. By last week he had already rounded up more delegates than "Buster" Dewey will have at convention time, even if Mr. Dewey sweeps every primary in sight...
Last week in St. Louis "Buster" Dewey took off his gloves, fitted brass knuckles over his fingers and slugged: "The record of the New Deal is one of broken promises, contempt for free institutions and abuse of power. . . . The platforms were worthless. . . The erosion of character in this Administration began within six weeks after it took office. This country needs a restoration of character...
...could deny that when Tom Dewey goes to the wars, he goes. U. S. political history had seen few cases of such violent campaigning before convention time. Last autumn aggressive "Buster" Dewey charted every trip, speech he must make, every bigwig he must meet before June, allotted his days and nights, set up his staff of 30 researchers to gather the material at a cost of $3,000 a speech...