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...Party labels won't mean much," opined Kelly yesterday, between puffs of cigar smoke, "particularly when there's a large and unknown vets' vote." He comes from Norwood where he can be assured of strong Democratic backing, while he hopes to make inroads in conservative Wellesley with his Harvard degree and College connections...
...cigar-fogged suite in Washington's Shoreham Hotel, negotiators for the nation's soft-coal operators drooped dejectedly. For a weary month they had failed to lure labor's one-man theater into writ-fag a new contract for his United Mine Workers. Now the nation was living on stored coal. And now, because his only specific demand (for a miners' health & welfare fund) had been turned down, Lewis was about to halt even the pretense of negotiation. Balefully he intoned...
...Congress Party's position on Pakistan was just as firm as Jinnah's. The party's official head, goateed Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Moslem who looks like a caricature of a Kentucky colonel, paced up & down in his Delhi quarters last week, smoking a big cigar. "Eighty percent of the Indian people live in villages where Hindus and Moslems get along well together-the only trouble is among the twenty percent living in the cities. This is basically an economic conflict, not religious." Jawaharlal Nehru made the plainest answer: "Nothing on earth, including the United Nations...
...Hooper rating of 16.8. He is even better as a storyteller. He sings, growls like a giant, laughs like a villainous ogre, wails like a princess with a pea in her bed. His tag line: "By the way, you better . . . turn over the record . . . while I light a cigar...
...went wild over the possibilities of radio. But wild as it went, it didn't go wild enough to keep up with the realities." In 18 years, William S. Paley has not changed this opinion of radio. He was only 27 when he paid $400,000, partly from cigar-peddling profits, to buy the Columbia Broadcasting System. The date: 1928. Since then, "Wild Bill" has personally directed his lusty, incredibly wealthy network, kept it staffed with an unusual collection of young men. When he returned to his desk after 24 months overseas, Bill Paley decided to shake...