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Fleur-de-Lis & Ham Hands. Finally with the null null Purchasing Director Bernard Green guarding the door against newsmen, the executive council members entered the conference room, settled themselves around a U-shaped table (its light blue cloth elegantly flecked with silverish fleur-de-lis) to hear genial Host Dave Dubinsky bring the major issue to a showdown. Said Dubinsky: "Let's decide whether we are going to endorse anyone...
...been vastly disappointed by the civil-rights planks of both the Democratic and Republican Conventions; moreover, he recalled the injunction of an A.F.L. founder, Samuel Gompers, against labor becoming too closely identified with either major political party. "Look," boomed Meany, walloping the table with the flat of his ham-sized right hand. "Don't get me wrong. I'm not neutral-I'm against both parties...
...Osborne, communications are both occupation and preoccupation. He started in the business as a boy, delivering Postal telegrams at 1? a message in New York City. When the U.S. entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
...fanned sense of security and political destiny is strangely balanced by a sense of self-deprecation. He is at his warmest and liveliest among friends and in small informal groups. He likes spirited conversation on nearly every subject, dislikes stuffed shirts and other people's academicism. He can ham up a game of charades, dance smoothly, charm a pretty girl. He is also one of the most artful dodgers of a restaurant check in public life, affects a studied carelessness about his appearance. The famous 1952 photo of Stevenson's worn-out shoe sole was no contrivance; neither...
...Bing Crosby musical, Rhythm on the Range. Its chief assets: four new songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, two leading ladies (Lori Nelson and Jackie Loughery), and a personable prize bull named Cuddles, who provides a beefy relief from the Martin and Lewis brand of ham...