Word: donalds
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Your June 9 article on Oxonians states that Donald Hall is the first American to win the Newdigate Prize for English Verse...
...Dwight Eisenhower's picnic for the Pennsylvania Republican delegation two weeks ago, Donald Fine, nine-year-old son of Governor John Sydney Fine, was wearing an Ike button. A newsman asked young Fine whether it meant he liked Ike. Replied Donald, clearly a chip off the old block: "I think Eisenhower is a nice man. I think Taft...
...wasn't going to let him catch me on that one," Donald later explained to Dad (who could scarcely have done better himself). "If I told him who I liked, then he might think you liked him too. Then they would say that fellow was going to be President, because I read in the paper you are going to decide who gets the nomination...
There was more to Donald's view than filial loyalty. Governor Fine holds the key to the Keystone State. He controls about 30 of Pennsylvania's 70-member delegation, and it is entirely possible that Fine's decision to throw his delegates behind Ike Eisenhower or Bob Taft might decide who gets the nomination. Which side of the fence John Fine will climb off is a burning question in the G.O.P. today. This lifelong machine politician, a miner's son from northeast Pennsylvania's brawling coal country, almost overnight has become a national figure...
Picture Windows on Politics. Pennsylvania is one state where a man does not cringe when his son asks him (as young Donald did the other day): "You're a politician, aren...