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Avocado Politics. Apra was not part of the government it fought so ferociously to uphold. With more seats in Congress than any other party, it was content to hold power without office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...incompatibilities of routine occupation business. Last fortnight, Berlin's Kommandatura met to transact some of that business. Facing each other across an oblong table in the large, high-windowed council room were youngish, earnest American Major General James Gavin; tall, leathery British Major General E. P. Nares; fattish French Major General Geoffrey de Beauchesne; and an able, hard-hitting Russian, Colonel General Alexander Gorbatov. Each had an interpreter at his side. Around the room sat some 30 experts and advisers. Major question on the agenda: Berlin's food supply...
From East & West they came, 55 of them, fattish and full of memories. They had read about this year's Wolverine Express. In three games it had scored 138 points, better than any other major college team in the U. S. And in the Big Ten (Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...
...Malone, in person, is no glamor boy. He is an earnest, balding, fattish young man with a blond mustache, rumpled pants. No poet himself, he started out 15 years ago at KMBC, Kansas City, as a ukulele player. One day, just to fill in, he read from a book of poems, and poetry got him. Now it gets him $300 a week at NBC, and Poetaster Joseph Auslander, poetry consultant to the U. S. Library of Congress, once invited him to be U. S.'s "Voice of Poetry...
...snork is Uncle Don. When he was a boy (Howard Rice, son of a horseshoe nail salesman), his pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children...