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...band struck up Happy Days Are Here Again at a United Steelworkers rally in Buffalo one day last week as silver-maned President David McDonald, a grin of victory on his face, slowly made his way toward the speaker's platform along an aisle jammed with jubilant steelworkers. Crowed McDonald from the platform: "Victory is yours...
Kennedy. Wearing a handsome grin and a deep tan (he was just back from a two-week rest in Jamaica), Jack Kennedy packed the stately caucus room of the old Senate Office Building as a front runner should. Millionaire Jack (see box) made no mention of money, called himself a "liberal Democrat," spun out a list of global questions that would require "crucial decisions" in the years ahead (arms race, emergent nations, U.S. science and education, farm policy, moral purpose...
...public image and private personality. Although he can tie words into knots ("I do say this: I may have, but I am not saying I didn't, but I don't believe I have. I do say this ..."), he has been vastly successful in making himself understood. His warm grin is known around the earth, but in private his temper can flare with crackling, barracks-room fluency. He seems boundlessly friendly and outgiving, but White House insiders have long since grown used to having him pass in the halls without a nod or a word. He has seen and been...
...Whiffenpoof Song. Surprise Guest Nat "King" Cole sang a few numbers. A hairdresser flitted around spraying hairdressing on falling female locks. General Motors' retired Board Chairman Albert Bradley gazed at the sumptuous decor (2,000,000 real magnolia leaves, real 18th century tapestries), said with a grin: "Maybe I'll take all these decorations and ship them to our next Moto-rama." An elderly lady observed with a sniff that old Henry Ford "wouldn't have liked all this smoking...
...some papers appeared fresh drafts of Christmas-gift policy. The New York Times in its memo solemnly advised its staff against keeping "gifts of substantial value," a qualification so vague that when Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein was pressed for specific proscriptions, he could only answer with a grin, "No yachts." The Minneapolis Star and Tribune restated existing policy: "Never accept more than a modest amount of anything one can eat, or drink, or that wilts." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reminded staffers of the paper's longstanding objection to acceptance of gifts-particularly anything worth more than...