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...Harry Truman honored Senator Arthur Vandenberg with a White House dinner, a casual spectator would never have noticed that Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor was numbered among the 90 guests. Shor, who looks like Gargantua* as a baby and who loves to greet his own clientele as "crum bums," was burstingly immaculate in white tie & tails, and acted as though he knew as much about the partitioning of Germany as Jimmy Byrnes...
...voted for him; they had voted against Herbert Hoover. They knew him as a pretty good governor of New York, a man with a strong-chinned patrician face and the magic name of Roosevelt, a man with a broad Harvard accent and the wealthy, aloof heritage of Groton and Crum Elbow...
This year the department has suffered the loss of two important professors to the war effort. Professor William L. Crum is now working for the Navy and the Treasury and Professor Edward S. Mason is in the Office of the Coordinator of Information in Washington. To replace Mason, who has been absent the entire year, Corwin D. Edwards of the Department of Justice and now visiting lecturer on Economics is giving graduate Instruction in Industrial Organization and Price Policies...
...Pathfinder, Publisher Emil Hurja, acclaimed as the statistician who in 1936 told Jim Farley that President Roosevelt would carry 46 States, this year forecast a Republican victory, gave Willkie a popular majority of nearly 1,000,000 votes. Harvard's Professor William Leonard Crum, writing in Barron's weekly, predicted that Willkie would "probably win with about 300 electors...
...facts, rough out drafts for Willkie speeches. Head of the squirrel cage was dark, intense Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, onetime FORTUNE managing editor, whom Willkie affectionately calls "The Zealot." Others: Pierce Butler, dry-witted, sunken-cheeked Minneapolis lawyer, son of the late famed conservative Supreme Court Justice; "Bart" Crum. smart young San Francisco lawyer; Raymond Leslie Buell, jug-eared foreign affairs expert; blond, sharp-eyed young Elliott V. Bell, former New York Times financial expert. Their routine was agonizing and invariable. One would be given a speech to write. When he had sweated his brains out over it, two or three...