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...Kelly, having weathered a New York ticker-tape parade and the Washington ceremonial circuit, including St. Patrick's Day at the White House, was bounding about Chicago like a leathery leprechaun. Proving himself of noble stuff, he managed to down such items as green rice, green clam chowder and green cookies without turning green himself. Steadfastly refusing to discuss political issues, he was nonetheless proud of his calling: "I have been a politician all my life. There is no nobler profession-except perhaps that of the church." Bussing and blarneying almost every woman in sight...
...father of an Irish family on Staten Island carried home a beer bucket. His son Tom, 9, tried to sneak a quick swig, soon collapsed, unconscious. The bucket held scalding, near-boiling chowder, and the burn closed young Tom's gullet with scar tissue. Not a particle of food or a drop of liquid could pass through it into his stomach. So surgeons cut into his abdomen, made a hole in his stomach where they attached it to the muscle wall. For the rest of his life, Tom had to feed himself by chewing his food and spitting...
...Bulganin, "I am impressed more than ever before with the enormous difficulties besetting us in attempting to move toward better relations and with the greater necessity than ever before of doing so." So saying, the President last week sprinkled a generous measure of salty common sense into the bubbling chowder kettle of speeches, letters and rumors that have been steaming up the need for a summit meeting...
There are, however, many high-placed Republicans who have great sympathy for Nixon's dilemma, and last week they tried to express their feelings. On the occasion of Nixon's 43rd birthday, a party in the auditorium of the National Press Club was given by the Chowder and Marching Society, an organization of G.O.P. Congressmen who came to the House at the same time as Nixon. It was a cold and icy night, but this was no ordinary turnout. On hand were nearly all members of the Eisenhower Cabinet, the White House staff, most G.O.P. Congressional leaders. From...
...when Nixon (who, like the other members of the Chowder and Marching Society, had been looking a little uneasy in a chef's cap and apron) arose to speak, he found himself full-face against his problem: political motives would be read into anything of substance that he might say. He had, therefore, to content himself with the unimportant...