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As state chairman, the central committee chose Richard H. Balch (pronounced bawltch) a wealthy and genial fishing-tackle manufacturer from Utica. Behind Balch was the Fair Deal wing of the party, led by ailing Bronx Boss Ed Flynn, Mutual Security Director W. Averell Harriman and Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr...
The distinction of having written the year's best novel went to the old master, Ernest Hemingway. His The Old Man and the Sea was a beautifully conceived, tightly written fishing story in praise of man's courage and the nobility of nature. The story appeared in LIFE...
Personality: Square and husky (5 ft. 8½ in., 170 Ibs.), he has not smoked in 15 years, drinks an occasional Scotch highball. He is so soft-spoken that acquaintances complain of difficulty in hearing him on the telephone. He is a Presbyterian. Married to Miriam Graim since 1918, he...
Another short poem by Ziegler--who does very well at this--and a well-written but tedious account of a fox hunt from the fox's eyes lead the reader to the last two stories, both of which are rather mis-begotten efforts. One is about a dour Maine lobsterman...
Curtice lives in Flint, commutes the 67 miles to Detroit almost every weekday by company plane. A man with a genuine liking for people, he can probably first-name more business friends than any other G.M. executive. He drinks and smokes sparingly, relaxes on rare fishing and hunting trips. But...