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...Senate after that and the Senate unrolled an extraordinary show. First, Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
...whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
Fellow-Traveler Groza sometimes wears dapper checks and sometimes snappy white linen suits. On his visit to Budapest he was in full Communist regalia-a double-breasted blue serge suit...
When it was all over, the 10,000 customers had bought merchandise with a retail value of $80,000. By buying up inventories and leftovers, Barry's got it for $20,000. The store's owner, dapper, suntanned Sam Behrstock, 43, estimates that his yearly anniversary sale increases his volume of business the rest of the year by 40%; people remember the name, come back. Behrstock started his give-away sale ten years ago, feels it is cheap advertising. Says Behrstock: "The idea was just short of an inspiration. And it makes me feel good to give...
Last week dapper, grinning and a little chubbier at 48 (he prefers to call it "plenty-eight"), the Duke celebrated his anniversary by playing some of his old favorites in the theater spot that is most sought after by bandleaders, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater. For some of the boys in his band, Drummer Sonny Greer, Harry Carney, baritone sax, and Guitarist Freddy Guy, it was also an anniversary. They had gone into the Cotton Club with the Duke 20 years ago. Tough little Saxophonist Johnny Hodges joined them there...