Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RedHaired Wife." Most Tennesseans knew that Estes Kefauver was no more a Communist than Ed Crump himself. They liked his showmanship and the way he stayed un-Crumpled. When he invaded Memphis he wore a coonskin cap, drew big crowds. Trumpeted his followers: "If there is anything red about him it is his red-blooded Americanism and his beautiful red-haired wife...
Most of last week's first program was a rambling, transcribed classroom bull session, complete with sound of chairs scraping and doors slamming. Its subject: Must we have war with Russia? As it drew to its inconclusive end, the announcer slithered again into his commercial: "Be alert! Be informed! Be able to hold your own in an argument...
More Fax. Western Union drew a bead on 3,000 U.S. business offices: its new Desk-Fax (for facsimile) machines, now in production, will send and receive messages in a direct tie-in with the nearest Western Union central office...
...taro last week at the head of a five-mile-long column of men. Mile on mile he moved across rugged hills, over the naked brown mountains. He walked past ancient churches and haciendas, through villages with pre-Christian names-Tepoztlán, Tlalnepantla, Cuautitlán. As he drew near Mexico City he passed modern factories-Azteca Cement, Nash Motors, La Consolidida Steel-whose chimneys ribbed the blue of Mexico...
...emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout for royalty and gourmets. There young César's instinct for the personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks partly to the style with which Ritz served them, trompe sauce chasseur became a mouth-watering success...