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...Curley, now 70, but reluctant as ever to leave the public payroll, announced that he would run for Mayor of Boston, a job he has held three times. Said he: "With due moderation, barring accidents, [I] should live for at least 25 years longer to please my friends and confound rumor mongers." It was no rumor that last year he finished paying off a $42,629 judgment for a rake-off from the last time (1930-1933) he was mayor...
Last week, as usual, millions of U.S. citizens gathered at their radios (NBC, 8 p.m., E.W.T.) to hear McCarthy confront and confound one of the nation's names. This time it was Orson Welles. McCarthy (who, of course, always has Scriptwriter Bergen on his side) blithely opened up: "Oh, Orson! .. . Oh, Wellesie! . . . Where is old fatso?" Welles came out of the wings at NBC's Manhattan studios, and McCarthy chirped: "Why don't you release a blimp for active service?" Once before, Welles had taken even worse abuse from his radio host. That time the actor...
Unlike British hecklers, who frequently break up meetings, U.S. hecklers normally do no more than stand on the fringe of the crowd, in "hecklers' row," try to confound the speaker by citing Biblical chapter & verse. A standard question when prayers to the Virgin are discussed is "What about I Timothy 2:5?" ("For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.") Evidence speakers call this verse-&-chapter heckling "playing the numbers game...
...Slichter's facts towered optimistically above the pessimistic probability of the dark valley period. For the tasks of peace should not confound a people who had learned how to build a Liberty ship in seven days, who worked an average of 52 hours a week to keep the thundering trains rolling, and who plowed their vast fields by moonlight to raise bumper crops...
...Confound their politics...