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...appears to be all things to all men but is confused in his own mind. (He began an article for PM last fall with the sentence: "Joseph V. Stalin has, I think, an open mind," now calls for outlawing the Communist Party in the U.S.) They feel that his habit of proposing a five-or ten-point panacea for every problem shows glibness and cockiness rather than sureness and knowledge. They point out that since 1946 he has done nothing but talk...
...Chinese have a pious habit of copying their old masters' paintings and signing the masters' names to their copies -out of respect. That practice makes a muddle of most Chinese art collections...
Wisconsinites liked his forthrightness, his willingness to talk turkey on any issue, his habit of holding informal question-&-answer periods after every formal talk. Meanwhile the well-trained Stassen organization bombarded voters with letters and telephone calls, turned out with their cars on election day to get the Stassen votes to the polls. Beyond that, Harold Stassen had the support and vote-getting pull of Senator Joe McCarthy and former GOP State Chairman Tom Coleman. When the votes were counted, Harold Stassen had propelled himself into the front rank of GOPresidential candidates...
...tried to break up his meetings. "They had a technique," he says. "They'd gradually move forward as if absorbed by what I was saying. Then they would ask increasingly menacing questions. When they had you against the wall, you were in their hands. I developed a habit of talking from near a window, with the window at my back. That gave me two advantages: I could see the faces of my enemies, and I could jump out of the window if they reached...
...appointed Agents will send a letter to members of the Class of '48 within the next week for contributions to the Fund. According to McCord, the object is not to raise large sums of money from a class about to graduate, but merely to get the men "in the habit of giving...