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Only three days before the Mossadegh government fell, Richardson had been in Teheran, talking with important political figures. All assured him things were now quiet in Iran, says Richardson, "including Mossadegh himself, who sat up in bed looking chipper and confident." Richardson flew to Jerusalem to check a report (which turned out to be unfounded) that a U.N. truce observer had resigned. He then returned to his Beirut base and found he had to write a background report on Mossadegh's successor, Qavam-only to get the report a few hours later that Qavam was out and Mossadegh back...
When Stevenson had finished, chipper Chicago Boss Jack Arvey got up, undertook to answer the unspoken $64 question: Would the governor accept a draft? Said Arvey: "I've never spent one 3? stamp or made a telephone call asking anyone to vote for Stevenson . . . But I'll say as long as I live that if the Democratic Party nominates Governor Stevenson, I know that in the light of his background...
...Last week, chipper and tanned, Old Man Stagg spryly demonstrated a few football plays on the thick, velvety turf of Chicago's Stagg Field. He was there as guest of honor at a celebration of his goth birthday (actual date...
...phenomenon. A 27-year-old Brooklynite named Sam Kaner had taken over the Experimental Film Group, and last week his Between Two Worlds was picked as the only amateur 16-mm. film to represent Britain at the August festival in Venice. Meanwhile, the awesome Oxford Union had Illinois' chipper 28-year-old Howard E. Shuman as president, and the new literary editor of the magazine Cherwell was California's Peter S. Steffens, son of Lincoln Steffens. As for the select (16 members) Writers' Club, it had five U.S. members, including President Bynum Grten of Louisiana and Geoffrey...
Never before had one man welcomed so many to a housewarming. Showing off the renovated White House to a TV audience of some ten million, President Harry Truman was dapper and chipper in a light blue double-breasted suit. He also appeared more at ease than the three network announcers (CBS's Walter Cronkite, ABC's Bryson Rash, NBC's Frank Bourg-holtzer) who took turns accompanying him on his rounds...