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Willkie followers, mostly amateurs, went around breathing hard, with a hopeful gleam in their eyes. One thing that made them happy was a widespread feeling that the Dewey drive was slowing up. Here & there delegates openly avowed they would desert Dewey at the first chance. A Gallup Poll, which showed Dewey still far ahead in popular favor (56%). also showed that he had dropped six points in the last two weeks of May. This could not be credited entirely to the Willkie boom: many a crack had been taken at "Toothbrush Tom," and perhaps voters were getting cold feet about...
Maryland. Voters in Maryland's Democratic primary apathetically chose a wealthy china collector, Incumbent Senator George Radcliffe, over a wealthy fox hunter, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. A lone Republican gleam came only from the Sixth District, where onetime fireball Pitcher Walter Johnson was nominated for Congress, and granted a 50-50 chance of election. The "Big Train," now a farmer, brushed hog feed off the hands that once sent baseballs smoking, said modestly: "Gee whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws...
...baggy tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantel-piece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from the huge chair in the gloom beyond the firelight. Vag shuddered. That question again. His classmates who where set on being...
Some time in June the gleam in big, shambling Publisher Ralph McAllister Ingersoll's eye is due to appear on New York City newsstands as a new afternoon newspaper called P. M. (TiME, Jan. 22). To publicize the coming event and round up artists who could illustrate newstories with sketches as a supplement to photographs, he announced a competition, in collaboration with Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, for newsy drawings, with five top prizes of $100, 20 prizes of $50 each. A jury chose and hung some 200 entries for the public to see, invited gallerygoers...
Copey's eyes shone with a youthful gleam yesterday as he revealed a plan which he has had in mind for years. He is determined, he announced, to buy a cow this spring and to test his right to graze her in the Yard...