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...against the laissez-faire doctrine of Liberalism with its conception of labor as a commodity. The great Tory reformer Disraeli, a biographer once wrote, "could not believe that men. men of flesh with mobile faces . . . were condemned to combine like so many crooked atoms to produce the cheapest possible calico in the richest possible world." In that day, said Rab, "Conservatism did not hesitate to invoke the collective power of society to redress the social wrongs caused by economic development. Now Socialism unduly exalts the state, and Conservatives must emphasize the importance of the individual...
...sweet 'taters. Lost two front teeth and a lot of hair in a personal encounter with an opponent. Donated to 200 preachers, gave 4,000 fans to churches. Gave away one bull, eight shoats, seven head of sheep to barbecues; gave away two pairs of suspenders, five calico dresses, five dolls and 15 baby rattles, kissed 150 babies, kindled 25 fires, put up 14 cook stoves, cut 15 cords of stove wood, promised twelve pups-the old female had only six. Carried 75 buckets of water, picked 25 gallons of blackberries, hauled 100 bags of dairy feed, unloaded...
...make about $75 a week, Newcomer Tom Morton is effective, in a junior-Brando sort of way. The other redeeming feature is Tallulah Bankhead, as the star for whom Playwright Morton is trying to build a vehicle. She plays a bowdlerized version of herself, fancying herself demure in calico, giving hell to Leo Durocher for losing a ball game, and calling everyone "dahling...
...Calico Touch. The successful announcer needs more than a voice and a passable appearance. He must be what the admen call "sincere." This means that his devotion to the product he is selling rivals the dedication of an old-style Japanese samurai to his Emperor. Stark is everywhere conceded to bring the "utmost in sincerity" to his commercials. Says NBC Vice President Ted Cott: "He's got the real calico touch." According to CBS's James Sirmons, when a TV director wants super-sincerity in a commercial, he tells the announcer: "Give it the Dick Stark treatment...
Businessman's Investment. The collection was the work of a pair of hardheaded Paris businessmen, Department Store Owner (La Samaritaine) Ernest Conacq and his nephew Gabriel. Ernest, who started out in 1851 as a twelve-year-old calico salesman and 30 years later owned a $4,000,000 business, was a man with little interest in Paris artistic life. ("It's fine until the music starts," he would say of opéra comique. "Then I fall asleep.") But he did have a bargain-hunter's eye for valuable painting. Shopping around, he put some...