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In the Senate, Republicans had picked up the potent support of tight-fisted Democrat Harry Byrd, who figured that 61 Senators were sure to approve; by next year they would be voting for tax cuts anyway. The Senate agreed to vote in time to have the measure on Harry Truman...
Prize protégé on this season's squad is ham-fisted Center Bill Wanish, who can hold a basketball in each hand palms down. In last week's game, Bill made 15 points. His No. 1 helper is Negro Elmo Jackson (ten points), a lightning-fast...
Addressing the one hundred and sixty-sixth annual winter dinner of the College Phi Beta Kappa Society, he pleaded for a two-fisted answer to the politiburo oligarchy, which, he asserted, controls every detail of Russian thought through the all-potent N.K.V.D.
From Harvard's ever-ready Anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton (Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa), the girls learned how to pick a good husband. Thin men, the professor warned, are apt to be mumblers who hate people and tire easily. Two-fisted Atlases stamp around the house...
Yet on Zweig's own testimony, Balzac's load of debt from his business failures and love of high living seems to have driven him on to writing as much as women or the urge to power. The ill-mannered, unkempt son of a tight-fisted petit bourgeois...