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...unruly wrangling and almost no disagreement. Party Boss Lord Woolton had provided a new slogan, "Winning Through," and a new symbol, a white lion rampant. But a party brochure picked the hen as its symbolic heroine and proclaimed, with a snort at Labor's noisy ranks: "The cock crows, but the hen delivers the goods." Which is the proper symbol for the Tories, asked the Manchester Guardian, lion rampant or hen couchant...
...defection of the Barrachinistes cost R.P.F. its cock-of-the-walk No. 1 position in the National Assembly. Reduced from 115 seats to 85, the Gaullists now rank as No. 3 after Socialists (104 seats) and Communists (96). For Premier Pinay, the splintering was one more lucky break. Barrachin's group noisily insists that they are still Gaullists at heart, and that they would resist the Schuman Plan and the European Army as bitterly as De Gaulle himself. But on economic issues, about which Pinay cares most, the Barrachinistes would do their best to save the franc. They proved...
...will not modify "to secure the support of a limited number of mugwumps," he certainly will not get the two mugwump votes of our household! As voters in Precinct 129 of Harris County, we are indignant over the malicious allegations of the Taft machine here which invented a cock-and-bull story about those "whisky-drinking, beer-guzzling Ike supporters who stole Chairman Miller's silverware," and then turned right around and stole our votes at Mineral Wells. To thousands of outraged Texans, Truman may stand for the Fair Deal, but Taft stands for the Dirty Deal...
Seven Wonders. In Fifty Years of Popular Mechanics (Simon & Schuster, $5), the present editors of the magazine (circ. 1,169,645) cock an uncritical eye at a half-century of publication, which reflects their nostalgic concern for the changing gadgetry of the years. The editors may have been slow to spot the Wright brothers, but by 1909 one of the first of a long line of build-it-yourself articles had Popular Mechanics readers constructing their own "gliding machine." Three years later, after polling 1,000 scientists, the magazine listed the Seven Wonders of the Modern World: "wireless, telephone, aeroplane...
Debating is not a spectacle (as a flea circus or a cock-fight is). It is an exercise in articulative facility and quick wit. It is intended to entertain no one except the participants. The relation you find between lack of spectators and last week's double loss to Yale is beyond the grasp of all natural intellects...