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Political sophisticates, recalling the strategic distribution of Calvin Coolidge's Have Faith in Massachusetts in early 1920, were satisfied that Ohio now has, in addition to Governor Bricker and Senator Taft, a third Republican Presidential hopeful. Senator Burton, satisfactorily internationalist, genuinely liberal, a potent vote-getter, was the dark-horse talk of the week...
Illinois Democrats put aside local squabbles and asked their showiest vote-getter to run for governor. Cook County's third-term Attorney Thomas James ("Honest Tom") Courtney, 49, whose silver hair and slanted smile are not lost on feminine voters, flatly demanded the support of Colonel Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News and Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. Getting it, he graciously accepted the draft. If he wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick...
Other considerations may also have inclined Dean Dun to make haste slowly. Well does he know that Washington's Bishop is expected to be a go-getter, to spend much time raising millions to finish the half-completed Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul, the majestic fane abuilding on Mount St. Alban for the past 36 years. Like all liberal Episcopalians, Dr. Dun, a great proponent of unity with Presbyterians, does not consider cathedrals important, would much rather be "a real pastor to the parish ministers" in the diocese...
...Dick Powell, Franchot Tone and the other players lather it on, True To Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...
...blasted Go-Getter Pochapin (pronounced Po-chaypin) out of the radio-recorder business. Says Max: "I made up my mind if I had to go into another business I'd tackle oil painting. It is the only industry I know that doesn't use modern merchandising technique. They are selling today as they sold 50 years ago." He adds: "I always loved pictures...but I was scared off by prices ranging from...