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...gave it to Harry Truman when Rayburn rejected it. "I'd rather be Speaker than any ten Senators," he sometimes said. "I love the House." It was a love that stretched back to early boyhood. As a suntanned youngster in Bonham, Texas, he peeped under the flap of a fairground tent and, with thumping heart, listened to the thunderations of Joe Bailey, a hell-for-leather Congressman. That did it. Later, Sam confided his ambitions to a brother: "I'm going to make a lawyer and go to Congress...
...appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...
Relations between Los Angeles and Las Vegas are still recovering from a flap over a speech by Las Vegas Civil Defense Leader J. Carlton Adair, who proposed a 5,000-man militia against the possibility of wartime refugees from California pouring into Nevada "like a swarm of locusts." And Civil Defense Coordinator Keith Dwyer of California's Riverside County (pop. 306,191) last week told a group of officials and reserve policemen in the town of Beaumont that as many as 150,000 refugees from Los Angeles might stream into Beaumont if there were an enemy attack, and that...
...Starting Flap. Johnson's new start has worked so well (last month he ran a wind-aided 9.2; fortnight ago, at Fresno's West Coast Relays, he won in 9.4 despite a strained groin muscle) that rival coaches are screaming foul. Occidental College's Chuck Coker argues that Johnson is using an illegal "rolling start"; that he is in motion before the starter's gun. The University of Illinois' Leo Johnson has threatened to force changes in N.C.A.A. track rules to ban his namesake's "questionable" technique. But most track officials agree with Coach...
Carnival's whole atmosphere comes charmingly to life at the very outset when, at dusk, first one trouper and then another straggles onstage. As the stage fills with proprietors and performers and roustabouts, as tents go up and booths slide into place and flags flap and sway, the bright lights come on, the lilting music soars, and the multicolored mongrel troupe parades. Then Marco the Magnificent appears, and the gal he forever two-times; then Paul, the lamed, embittered puppeteer, and the pal he forever snaps at. Soon, a wispy, skinny-limbed, wide-eyed Lili (Anna Maria Alberghetti) turns...