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...supersalesman; politics was soon to find it out. He made a speech to well-scrubbed Philadelphia Main Liners at the staid Academy of Music. He ordered fried chicken for G. 0. P. Negroes. He invited himself to a caucus of Kansans, had breakfast with Candidate James's hog-tied Pennsylvanians, and began raiding every delegation in sight, loose or tied...
That outlet stations were contractually hog-tied to one network, prevented from broadcasting in their areas many programs the public wanted...
Longer than In Defense of Love, as unaggressive and scrupulous as the latter is hog-wild, is The Successful Error, by Rudolf Allers. Rudolf Allers is a psychiatrist, formerly of Vienna, and a Catholic. Like many a well-educated Catholic, he uses the instruments not of faith but of logic, thereby finds psychoanalysis illogical in its premises, highly rationalized in their proofs. That one such volume should destroy psychoanalysis is most improbable. That laymen should feel qualified either to swallow or spit out its arguments is only too possible. But that such a volume may aid in the reduction...
Author of these Memphis blues was Ed Crump's new Police and Fire Commissioner Joe Boyle. Joe Boyle is pious, thorough, as independent as a hog on Mr. Crump's ice can be. "Boyle on the neck," his policemen call him. "Holy Joe." under-worldlings snort. "We are just enforcing the law," snaps Joe Boyle...
...collector, Incumbent Senator George Radcliffe, over a wealthy fox hunter, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. A lone Republican gleam came only from the Sixth District, where onetime fireball Pitcher Walter Johnson was nominated for Congress, and granted a 50-50 chance of election. The "Big Train," now a farmer, brushed hog feed off the hands that once sent baseballs smoking, said modestly: "Gee whiz. . . . I aim to study up on them things [foreign affairs]. ... I know some fellas that know all about those things. . . ." Republicans. While straws in the wind still showed a general trend to the G. O. P., Candidate...