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...that voters are comparing Bush with Gore, the case for reasonable change may be harder to make. Gore has detached himself from Clinton, enlisted a high-collar running mate in Joe Lieberman, brought down his negatives to the point that they are lower than Bush's, 29% vs. 34%, and reached out to swing voters. In fact, Gore has found his own way of making a character appeal. He talks about being "specific" as though it is an act of political heroism: "All this talk that it's a mistake to give out specifics, I think, was premature," Gore says...
Andrew Osbourne makes a divine Bogey and gets lots of laughs with his high-collar trenchcoat. Don't worry about women, he advises his hapless apprentice, "It's nothing a little bourbon and soda wouldn't help." Felix answers, "If I had a thimble full of bourbon, I'd go out and get tattooed...
There are still crusades in the press but the muckraker's tone of high-collar righteousness seems out of key in today's more complicated world, in which Americans have found that they have more to worry about, from Berlin to Laos, than civic corruption or spoiled meat. Laws and the nation's conscience have eliminated most of the outrages the muckrakers attacked. But the Weinbergs' book is a readable reminder of the days when a handful of serious scolds could make a whole nation feel as embarrassed as a small boy caught with dirt behind...
...high-collar areas of Boston, Frederic C. Dumaine flaunted an open-shirt background, cussed a blue streak, and walked with a bearlike roll. But by many a shrewd and ruthless financial coup, he climbed to the top of Boston's moneyed oligarchy, bossed the Amoskeag textile mills, once the world's biggest. Last week, at 82, shaggy-browed, alert Frederic Dumaine was in the midst of the biggest coup of his career...
...flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert if he had quit beating his wife." chuckled Statesman Bilbo. "He couldn't say yes and he couldn...
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