Word: deweyitis
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...General Eisenhower has never even run for office . . . public-opinion polls are not infallible, and is Ike's margin over Truman so much greater than was Dewey's around convention time, 1948? Didn't the Gallup poll report last summer that Ike's popularity had slipped 5% in one month...
...pupils at Christmas, a sixth-grade teacher in New Castle, Ind. reported the following Yuletide take to the Kansas City Times: six pieces of double-bubble chewing gum, one bottle of Night in Bagdad perfume, three pictures of Actor Lash Larue, two rolls of mints, a loaded cigar, a Dewey-for-President badge. ¶ Gift of the week: the 30-room Southampton, N.Y. mansion of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles E. Merrill to his alma mater Amherst College. Amherst's plan for the mansion: to set up a Merrill School of Economics for advanced summer training of students who show "marked...
West Point Sesquicentennial (Sat. 11:15 p.m., NBC, 12:45 p.m., ABC). Speaker: Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
This year Ufford beat Bob Dewey of Yale in the semi-finals in five games, 15-12, 15-6, 9-15, 10-15, 15-5. Squires defeated the first-seeded Murphy in his semi-final match in straight games...
...liked it. The sponsor (Block Drug Co., Inc.) winced under a barrage of protests, ranging from charges that the show "set back the education of retarded children by ten years," to complaints about "unpleasant realism." One critic demanded that CBS send a kinescope to New York's Governor Dewey as Exhibit A in an argument for TV censorship. Nor were network executives and admen comforted by the fact that they got as many compliments as brickbats. In the complex world of commercial television, one boo means far more than 100 bravos, because it may represent someone...