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...Pondered whether to take to the road on a "give-'em-hell" speaking tour. White House advisers want him to, but Democratic National Chairman Bill Boyle is against it. Boyle thinks that the President would be throwing away his Sunday punch too soon, should wait to tour...
Died. Fannie Brice, 59, leave-'em-laughing star of stage and radio, who worked her way up from amateur nights, began her career in the big-time in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles. In a series of turbulent romances she married and left 1) a barber named Frank White, 2) Gambler Nicky Arnstein, 3) Showman Billy Rose, meanwhile won new fame with her famed radio characterization, "Baby Snooks...
...neat bit of off-the-cuff campaigning, and was calculated-like his "hope" of making a cross-country give-'em-hell speaking tour this spring or summer-to gladden the hearts of the Democratic bigwigs who met in Denver last week to beat the drums for '52. Politics, like June, was bustin' out all over...
...officer corps have had far too much schooling and far too little service in the field of battle . . . Throw all these girls out of the camps. Get rid of the ice cream and candy. Give 'em beer and whisky-that'll help some. Get some pride in them. Tell them they...
...dilapidation. A year ago the tenant, Dana Vibert, lobster dealer, strung overhead wires to the shack to run an electric pump. Horrified art colonists demanded that he take them down; they spoiled the charm. Replied Vibert: "If you don't like the wires, don't paint 'em." Charm or no charm, he intended to go right on running his electric pump with electricity...