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Favorite: Joseph Lyter Donaldson, 52, candidate of the State machine. Gaunt-framed Donaldson is bank president in his home town of Carrollton, and as State Highway Commissioner has been the chief patronage dispenser in Governor Keen Johnson's Democratic administration...
...Petersen contrasts tall, gaunt, brooding Abraham Lincoln with short, broad, bustling Stephen Douglas. He points out that Hippocrates, father of medicine, observed that development of the embryo "is not the same for the same seed in summer as in winter nor in rain as in drought." Douglas, born of a placid, comfortable mother, was conceived during a peaceful Vermont summer, weighed 12 lb. (or more) at birth. He grew up in a snug, warm household, and his roly-poly build helped him withstand the buffetings of the weather. According to Dr. Petersen, the "broad type" is less upset by extremes...
...Manhattan playhouse, at the Paramount, at the Lucky Strike Hit Parade, hundreds of little long-haired, round-faced girls in bobby socks sat transfixed. They were worshipers of one Francis Albert Sinatra, crooner extraordinary. Their idol, a gaunt young man (25), looked as if he could stand a square meal and considerable mothering. A composite picture of his idolaters' reactions to his public appearances last week...
...Michael Donnellan's Farmers Party won 14 seats, a gain of twelve. The Farmers and their gaunt, roughly garbed, ex-Gaelic-football-star boss scored the surprise of the election...
...Triborough Stadium, had eyes for only two. One was chunky, pony-gaited Gregory Rice, taking time off from his duties as chief petty officer at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, L.I. to defend the championship he had won for five successive years. The other: gaunt, gazelle-gaited Gunder Hagg (pronounced Hegg), the touted Swedish fireman who was making his U.S. debut in the national 5,000-meter...