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...talking about tacit assumption, basic attitudes of so deep a level that they themselves are often not aware. But what they are aware of is that many of the concepts to which we older persons clung are to them irrelevant, irrelevant and irritating...
...accounts for 43% of the Iranian national budget. The British hoped such economic blows would compel a change of heart, perhaps through a change of government. But there was an unpleasant prospect in this plan: a Red-led regime and economic chaos might replace Mossadeq. The septuagenarian Premier himself clung desperately to a belief that Allah, or perhaps the U.S., would somehow retrieve the situation...
Back in Saskatchewan, Arthur Morton clung doggedly to hope. In his newspaper he read of an evangelist in Costa Mesa, Calif, who was said to be curing the sick by prayer. Ignoring the advice of doctors, he decided to make the 2,800-mile trip with his son, by then scarcely able to breathe, and wasted to a shadowy 20 pounds...
...Take It With You (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC) is a radio serial based on the PulitzerPrizewinning (1936) comedy by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. The opening show clung tenaciously to the original playscript in putting the zany Sycamore family through its paces: Penny, writing plays in the parlor; Paul, detonating explosives in the basement; Grandpa, exhibiting snakes in the living room. Cinemactor Walter Brennan plays the philosophizing Grandpa Vanderhof, and is described with deadly accuracy as "a wonderful, scheming, lovable old pixie...
Starting with a furious 52 at the Larz Anderson Bridge, the Journalists' shell kept up a steady 15 under the Weeks footbridge, while the 'Poonsters clung tenaciously to a six length lead. The "humorists" stayed ahead right up to the Western Avenue finish line, at which point the CRIMSON upped the beat to 64 and swept past to win by 23 lengths over the abbreviated two-mile course in the time...