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"If He Doesn't Pick . . ." Waiting at the inn were his campaign manager, Jim Finnegan (see box), and his old political sponsor, Chicago's Jacob Arvey. Their private discussion of the pros and cons of Adlai's open-race plan floated over an open transom:
To make good on that boast, he works a ferocious schedule, often staying up till 4 a.m. dictating letters and memos on every subject of government. He is a tireless reader of the newspapers, and cons the entire Arab world press daily, down to the last movie review. It is...
The Johnson bill also stated that the Union committee should make its final decision about next year's smoker "in the light of the pros and cons, not in the light of tradition."
¶New York Times Washington Correspondent James ("Scotty") Reston, more often a critic than an applauder of the Administration, ventured no prediction, but concluded three pro and con articles on "The Big Question" with more cons than pros. Reston reasoned that none of the President's most trusted advisers...
Michael Redgrave as the air marshal is just the right mixture of phlegm and haw, and Ralph Truman as the peer is a jowly good fellow. Just right is George Rose, the commercial vulgarian who cons the better man down and then crows most abominably about it.