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Time was when a course in oratory was standard preparation for a political career. Today a shrewd campaigner takes lessons in radio technique. But radio campaigning is a young art, ripe for experiments, knotty with problems. Last week New York's ding-dong gubernatorial race produced one of each...
...Ding and Dong in their race for Democratic nomination to the House for a Baltimore district last fortnight were bald-headed Representative Vincent L. Palmisano, 55, and black-thatched Thomas d'Alesandro, 35. Mr. Palmisano last week looked like the loser by perhaps 50 votes out of 25,000. As much interested in the outcome as Baltimoreans were residents of the District of Columbia. For as chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee since last April, Mr. Palmisano has been "Mayor of Washington." District of Columbians have been agitating for years, lately with vigor, for the right...
...York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, onetime (1934-36) chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, produced an apt allegory": "Life in an Iron Lung"-Uncle Sam in an artificial respirator, with Drs. Roosevelt, Ickes, Morgenthau and Nurse Democracy experting and little John Taxpayer manning the pump...
Affectionately called "Ding Ding" by his cronies because he was once a trolley-car conductor, Charles Leo ("Gabby") Hartnett has been the most popular player on the Chicago Cubs since the day he first appeared at training camp as a grinning, chattering rookie in 1922. One of the greatest catchers of all time, with a lifetime batting average of .300, 200-lb. Gabby Hartnett, still grinning, last week succeeded Charlie Grimm as manager of the team to which he has devoted his whole major-league career...
...Ding, ding, ding, rings the bell. Thump, thump, thump, starts the machine: PARIS-PREMIER BOUILLABAISSE AND HIS CABINET DROVE THIS EVENING IN A POURING RAIN TO THE ELYSEE PALACE TO PRESENT THEIR RESIGNATIONS TO PRESIDENT...