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Smathers was capable of going to any length in campaigning, but he indignantly denied that he had gone as far as a story printed in northern newspapers. The story wouldn't die, nonetheless, and it deserved not to. According to the yarn, Smathers had a little speech for cracker voters, who were presumed not to know what the words meant except that they must be something bad. The speech went like this: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism...
...outstanding personality on the air. From radio and TV, records, business investments, stocks & bonds, and other odds & ends, he gets close to $1,000,000 a year. He earns $1,500 for every minute he broadcasts. He is seen & heard-and apparently loved-by 40 million people. His homey, cracker-barrel commercials for tea, cigarettes, furniture polish, floor wax, window cleanser, crackers, shampoos, soup, home permanents, hand lotion and hair tonic set cash registers jingling profitably across the nation. He is the greatest salesman who ever stood before a microphone...
Heroine Gene Tierney is married to a cracker jack psychiatrist (Richard Conte), who never suspects that she is a kleptomaniac who can't sleep. Fearful of losing his high opinion, she goes for help to an unctuous hypnotist (José Ferrer). One night, while Svengali Ferrer is off setting up an alibi by having his gall bladder out, she wakes out of a trance to find herself a first-class murder suspect...
...sack St. Louis Browns, made headlines last week by practically putting itself out of business. To make ends meet, they sold their two best players: hard-hitting Third Baseman Bob Dillinger and an outfielder to the Philadelphia A's (for $100,000 and four players) and cracker jack Second Baseman Jerry Priddy to the Detroit Tigers (for $125,000 and a pitcher). To help inspire confidence among the players they have left, the Browns had hired a consulting psychologist...
Aiken, rejecting "transcendental theism and "cracker-barrel atheism," called for a re-interpretation of Christian testaments as "poetic myths expressing the ideal of man." He felt that "all values derive from the satisfaction of the wants...