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Ingalls finished and looked up. Taftmen leaped to their feet to applaud, but the ovation was noticeably lighter than it had been at the beginning. Two seats away, Earl Warren, his face frozen in a faint quarter-smile, applauded perfunctorily. Cabot Lodge gave two handclaps, got up from the speakers' table and strode angrily from the platform...
...Theory. While the Air Force goes about its map making, Astronomer George Van Biesbroeck will be busy at Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, checking up on Einstein's theory. During the three minutes of total eclipse, he will aim his telescope at the faint star field ordinarily blotted out by the sun's brilliance...
...shuffle is gone. But the rest of the delivery is still there, as good or better than ever: the perfectly timed twitch of the brows; the play of the luminous brown eyes?now rolling with naughty thoughts, now staring through the spectacles with only half-amused contempt; the acidulous, faint smile; the touch of fuming disgust in the voice ("That's as shifty an answer as I ever heard") ; above all, the effrontery...
VIRGINIA-23. Taft claims the state in the face of hopeful but faint dissent from Ikemen. Strong man in Virginia's Republican Party is National Committeeman Curtis M. Dozier of Richmond. Taft will make a major speech at Richmond in mid-January in an attempt to clinch Dozier...
...flew Caudle to Florida twice for deep-sea fishing. Once, Caudle got up the whole party, which included Charles Oliphant, counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. While these pleasant jaunts were going on, the U.S. was investigating Whitehead's tax status. Caudle said he had just a "faint recollection" that he might have telephoned Oliphant about removing a $40,000 tax lien the U.S. had against Whitehead's plant. That would have been "the most normal thing" to do, he said, since he talked with Mr. Oliphant almost every day. Day after his faintly recollected telephone call...