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...were arguing bitterly over the question whether Dwight Eisenhower had enough experience to be President, and whether he was decisive enough. By last week, it seemed hard to believe that the argument had ever really taken place. Eisenhower had taken com mand as quickly and firmly as any Presi dent-elect in U.S. history...
...teach them, and imbue them with as high morale as you can. But forcing undergraduates to center their lives on Shannon Hall, or any step toward that which isn't absolutely indispensable to producing competent officers, is blatantly improper. The least AROTC could do (and what probably would hardly dent the officers club membership, either) is to leave such things to the candidate himself. Only this way can the proper and preceations balance be kept...
...come out of anything so little." Hitting on all decibels, and mugging like a young chimp playing Maurice Chevalier, Robert mows them down with Lucky Pierre (first in French, and then with an English translation). Then he plows them under with a number entitled Don't Put a Dent in My Heart (but "hit me, beat me, slap me around"). He also does a lavish imitation of that well-known grief machine, Johnnie...
...filing such obviously slanted pro-Stevenson copy that the paper's editors sent "corrective guidance" to its correspondent. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard printed a dispatch from Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt, headlined I TIP STEVENSON TO WIN, which said that "hysteria about Communism is making a dent in America's claim to call herself a democracy." On election eve, the London Daily Graphic's Frank Oliver cabled his paper: "I believe Governor Stevenson will...
Election excitement in October made a noticeable dent on the movie box office, according to a Variety poll of 25 key cities, but the popular pictures nonetheless showed "amazing strength." The armor-plate horse opera Ivanhoe (MGM) held a steady lead, but The Snows of Kilimanjaro (20th Century-Fox) was pushing hard from second place. Other winners...