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...announcement stunned Republicans in Connecticut and Washington. New Dealing Chester Bowles would almost certainly replace Baldwin with a Democrat, thus increasing Democratic strength in the Senate to 55, a majority of seven; at the same time the Republicans would lose their best vote getter in the state. When-Baldwin showed up at a dinner attended by bigwigs of both parties in Hartford last week, he was loudly booed by Republicans...
...play filled every seat at $2.40, the Folger's small capacity left it $1,500 short of expenses. But it was a critical hit in the Washington press and a hit for the new regime (nine months) of Library Director Dr. Louis B. Wright, 50, a go-getter with a passion for enlarging the Folger's usefulness. Said he: "I haven't the foggiest idea of sitting up with a corpse or running a mausoleum...
...Willy Loman, who all his life has been a salesman-and never a very successful one-is faced with what he cannot face: defeat. He has learned the go-getter gospel by heart, fervently played the goodfellow game, planted his sons along the broad winning highway, locked himself-and then lost himself-inside the American dream. Whenever the truth has not been fancy enough, he has lied to other people; whenever it has hurt, he has lied to himself. Nor have his sons fared better-neither the boy who loved his father till he found him with a woman...
Together with Fels Carter, a heavy-handed sophomore, Gay ought to be the chief crowd-getter in the fencing meets. His antics come as close to Douglas Fair-banks...
...politico" who took enough time to drive hundreds of Kerry Corner youngsters out into the country on Sunday mornings. This was the bespectacled little man who on Saturday morning, personality delivered baskets of food to poor and needy families. This was Councilman Michael A. Sullivan the vote getter...