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...hostile audience: "I wouldn't vote for anybody for a third term, with the exception of Jesus Christ." Mrs. G. A. Crotts, a Nashville housewife, answered sharply: "I want Roosevelt for a third term, a fourth term or as many terms as he wants." Then she ran the gamut of Presidential possibilities, called Dewey "a little two-for-a-nickel lawyer," Taft "the perpetual whiner of the Senate and No. 1 bore," Willkie "head of the Southern Power Corporation when the companies robbed the few people able to pay for or use electric service...
...staggered into South Station laden down with the necessities of his annual Spring fishing trip. Disposed clumsily and loosely about his person were two fishing rods, a tackle box, a landing net, a small overnight bag, and a fishskin-bound volume of Izaak Walton. Before running the gamut of redcaps waiting eagerly to receive him, Vag stopped to reflect. Six parcels meant he would have to pay the porter sixty cents -- a rather stiff assessment coming so soon after his last weekend in New York...
...eats five times a day, with big helpings of fruit in between. Favorite fruit: bananas; next: pears, which he gobbles up the way others do grapes. Of U. S. wrestling tactics, he has not yet run the full gamut, will not venture a full critique. Asked, however, how the slugging Bacigalupi welcome in Boston struck him, he replied blandly: "Je ne suis pas une jeune fille" (approximately: "I'm no lily...
...cellist could dub in his part as best he could, have the fun and profit of playing quartets with three top-notch virtuosos. If he made mistakes or got lost, all he had to do was stop the record. The idea caught on. Last year in the U. S. Gamut Recording Co. issued sololess accompaniments to Schumann's Träumerei and Massenet's Élégie, complete with printed parts to be filled in by the player...
...Anderson's laurels. The voice was Dorothy Maynor's (TIME, Aug. 21), plump, Norfolk-born daughter of a Methodist minister, who had been studying for several years with courtly Manhattan Vocal Coach John Alan Haughton. The picked audience of musicians and critics who heard her run the gamut from Wagnerian hallelujahs to coloratura tinkletones spoke of her as a native Flagstad...