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George Allison Wilson, 58, Iowa, who moved up from the Governorship by beating Senator Clyde L. Herring (who had the personal blessing of lowan Henry Wallace). A rugged six-footer who likes to fish and to work in his garden, Wilson is an honest but unspectacular politico whose hat has been in one ring or another almost ever since he got out of law school...
...speed record. Last ship to win it was the Queen Mary. Hales was curiously in & out of the news all his life: he flew an airplane around St. Paul's Cathedral in 1908; when he was a Conservative M.P. he enlivened a House of Commons debate on the herring industry by gesturing with a dead herring as he argued; an autoist since 1897, in his old age he bragged he had never blown his horn, tried to make it illegal for any other Briton to blow...
...After him comes Felix Bressart, who is probably a nice fellow to his own friends, but then who wants to bother with those missing links? Bressart, lovable chap that he is, divides his time between kicking Holloway around and trying to marry his own daughter off to the local herring czar so he won't go broke, or something like that. In all this bhe is aided by a pair of sadistic old wenches, presumably his wife and mother, who, in addition to stepping all over our idiot's face--by now a popular indoor sport--seem to take immense...
...venture the whole country would like to see a few real men in Congress and in the fourth estate as well who could take it without howling like children, as well as dishing it out. In these days the red herring and such are of more value in the kitchen...
Swedish Snaps. The polar bears in Stockholm's Scansen have not had their full rations of raw meat for three years. Neither have the Swedes had their sill & snaps (herring & aquavit) as often as before. They have managed to maintain their national Thursday evening meal of pea soup and pancakes-and they have managed to stay...