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Affable & Neighborly. That afternoon the Dewey family left on a special train for their farm near Pawling, N.Y. En route, Tom Dewey chatted with newsmen ; they had never seen him so affable. At Pawling (pop. 1,400), to a crowd of 3,000, he said: "This village is my home . . . Here we have the charity and open-mindedness . . . that I earnestly hope to bring to our Government . . . You are the most wonderful neighbors...
Cross Porpoises. In Marineland, Fla., aquarium officials were distressed to learn that two porpoises they had shipped to Bimini, B.W.I, had become seasick en route...
...En route to Baltimore, he was asked about his Oregon debate with Harold Stassen. Said Dewey: "You know, one man told me that debate was just like a truck driver running over a baby, then deliberately driving forward and backward over the body." Then he added: "Of course, that's a little exaggerated...
...were piously unspecific ("You don't join anything, you don't pay anything, the idea is that you begin living the M.R.A. standards"). But there is nothing vague about the M.R.A. technique. Teams of 50 to 500 Buchmanites, many of them apple-cheeked, athletic Britons, have descended en masse upon communities, distributing literature, staging M.R.A. morality plays and organizing banquets to provide top-drawer local backing (like Los Angeles' George L. Eastman) for M.R.A. speakers...
...fine and highly paid position" and expect "a lingering death." He made what Author Carnegie calls a "rare and superb decision"; he set off on a round-the-world jaunt, taking his coffin with him. The undertaker has now bought back the coffin, and Mr. Haney, who stopped worrying en route, has "gained 90 pounds...