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Botsford, the scrappiest, if not cockiest member of the quartet, will have the majority of the burden upon his shoulders today since he is the quarterback...
...version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Dancer Youskevitch happily strutted his muscular way through the gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular part, the cockiest sailor in Fancy Free, which had the audience giggling merrily, and as the lovelorn doll in Petrouchka, which had it misty-eyed...
...made on the first anniversary of the Korean war-was both a bluntly worded defense of his foreign policy and a truculent attack on his critics, including Republicans and General MacArthur, who, he charged, "have been trying to separate us from our allies." It was Harry Truman at his cockiest...
...Human Welfare State. Even the cockiest delegates were a little awed as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas told them what labor had wrought. Said Douglas: "The human welfare state is the great political invention of the 20th Century. Labor was its prime promoter ... All groups in society-farmers, business, and the professions-were its beneficiaries...
...Jersey, the last leg of the great political caravan, he had ridden into Elizabeth with confetti from New Brunswick still in his hair. He was the same confident Wendell Willkie who had said before his nomination: "I am the cockiest fellow you ever saw." Saturday noon, the train had rolled into Penn Station in New York City, and stopped at last. That night, more than 22,000 supporters jammed Madison Square Garden in the most tremendous rally veteran reporters had ever seen, and Willkie raised his arms, to receive an ovation that transcended everything that had gone before...