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...those grown fond of the din, the 1956 Republican National Convention may well have seemed dull, and, compared to the Democratic meeting (or past G.O.P. conventions), it was. There were no fights, no cliff-hanging situations. With hardly a discordant tock to its tick, it ran off with multi-jewel precision. At the flick of a hand from Hollywood's George Murphy, the convention entertainment director, singers of all shapes and sizes appeared to entertain the delegates. At the drop of a G.O.P. hero's name, sign-toting Young Republicans in varsity sweaters snake-danced down Cow Palace...
...married (1926) sack-shaped moneybags Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, 51, six months later set the 1920s roaring at the decade's wildest divorce suit, in which she testified that Daddy (a "grey-haired old wowser," Damon Runyon reported) sometimes crawled around making "funny noises," was inordinately fond of a pet African honking gander; of a brain hemorrhage and liver failure after a fall in her Manhattan apartment. Peaches lost her divorce suit, but after Daddy died (1934) won $154,971 as his legal widow, later was married and divorced three times...
...purchase a fond mother...
That quadrennial phenomenon known to the politically-minded at the National Nominating Convention, and to the television observer as a circus, stirs many to fond memories. The wide-open blustery conventions of yesteryear are remembered by few, but one Summer School student can conjure up a panorama of past politics via his unusual collection of campaign buttons...
...assuage her grief with a solemn second funeral for granny in a borrowed tomb. By the time her frantic parents find her, sorrow has thawed Lovey's heart, and love for Jim has helped her to reach again for life. Recognizing that even her parents, though foolish, are fond, Lovey is ready to leave the graveyard for the land of the living...