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Franklin Jr. had a well-prepared little statement for newsmen: "My only political intention is to represent my constituents of the 20th District of New York . . . I'm not a crystal-ball gazer, and therefore don't go any further than the immediate foreseeable future." Later, he went to the White House to assure President Truman of his loyalty. "We had a nice chat," reported Congressman Roosevelt. "I told him there was no question that I was a member of ... the team of which he was captain and quarterback." A reporter wanted to know if he felt...
...Crystal Gazer. In Washington, Michael Prencipe, 18, prophesied to a Times-Herald inquiring photographer that 1949 "will be a good year for everyone," next day was arrested for housebreaking and bail-jumping by police who recognized his picture...
...neither a polished writer nor a knowing crystal-gazer. But brawny Irving Kupcinet (pronounced CUP-senate) had proved, to the satisfaction of Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times, that one good local columnist will outsell all the syndicated canned goods on the market. "Kup's Column," a casually tossed salad of chitchat and nightclub gossip with a Leonard Lyons-like flavor, is easily the most widely read feature in Chicago...
...hundred feet. That, of course, is the really puzzling thing about the Flying Thudwunk-where does it get the noodles? Up until the time that it pauses and reshapes itself no noodles are visible at all. In fact, they aren't ever visible until they hit the Thudwunk-gazer in the eye. At that juncture the gazer loses sight of the Thudwunk...
...Crystal Gazer. Before the week was out he had proof that his veto and reversal would win him friends-at least for the time being. Alexander Fell Whitney, who once threatened to spend millions of his Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen's dollars to beat Harry Truman, wired that his Brotherhood was "deeply grateful." Said tired Phil Murray: "President Truman is a good political crystal gazer and he knows that if he is going to be a successful candidate in 1948, he has to have the support of organized labor. Whether the veto is or is not a matter...