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When will the new upsurge reach its crest? Looking at the new increase in domestic demand, most businessmen thought the crest was still months away. And the economy has yet to feel the impetus of ECA. When it comes, businessmen feared it would bring material and manpower shortages that would curb production and thus run up prices still more...
...illustrated your entrancing and masterful article on Olivier's Hamlet with the Ashbourne portrait which hangs in the Folger Shakespeare Library. This has lately been revealed by X-ray and infra-red pictures to be a portrait of Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford . . . The Oxford crest on the signet ring is disclosed, and also, in the upper corner, Lady Oxford's coat of arms. A commoner's collar has been painted over the nobleman's ruff, and the forehead raised to the point of baldness...
...Russia abroad and do a "good, sound, businesslike job" at home. Against him is a dislike of the cold, cocksure Dewey manner, a fear that he is motivated by expediency, and the fact that he has run before and lost. As of last month, when Dewey was riding the crest of his Oregon victory, he could have beaten President Truman by 41% to 34%, would have lost to Ike Eisenhower...
...lost in smoke and dust. Spitfires swooped in wide spirals, loosing their rockets. Gradually the quick chatter of the rebels' Breda and Spandau machine guns was subdued and the slower Greek army Brens took over. Twenty-five minutes after the attack began, green Very lights arched over the crest. The position had been taken...
There were sideshows everywhere. Harold Stassen's backers handed out slices of cheese in their headquarters, carried a pretty girl through jammed lobbies in a rowboat. She held a sign which read: "Man the oars, ride the crest, Harold Stassen, he's the best." The Taft camp imported a real elephant and led it around the streets; they were rewarded with a vicious rumor-that they were doping the beast with digitalis to keep it alive...