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...leader of the rump caucus was New York's homespun, able Irving Ives. As a freshman Senator two years ago, he made a, successful fight against some of the more rigorous measures which Taft had tried to write into the Taft-Hartley Act.† Said Ives: "Rightly or wrongly, the consensus of opinion of many Republicans is that the party under Bob is not going forward. We are in a state of suspended animation...
...Paris, the gloom surrounding the council's final sessions at the Palais de Chaillot inspired yet another figure of speech, less homespun than the Hollander's simile about the New England domestic problem. The scene, said one British delegate, was like Haydn's Farewell Symphony (in which the musicians leave the orchestra pit one by one until only two violins and the conductor are left). "The speeches started in crescendo. Then people began slipping away one by one. At the end there was no one left and nothing...
...homespun diplomat with a New Hampshire twang, portly "Whit" Whittemore milked cows as a boy in Pembroke, later tried railroading, sat on the New Hampshire tax commission, and ran. a lumber business. In 1929 he joined the Boston & Maine Railroad, became assistant to the president...
...spends at least half of the year at the governor's summer home, built by Ed Martin on the military reservation at Indiantown Gap. With his wife and their two dogs Jim Duff patrols the grounds inspecting the new tree plantings which are his pride. Unpretentious and homespun, Jim Duff has only one ambition: "To get something started in Pennsylvania which they'll be afraid to wash out when I leave here two years from...
Mississippi-born Composer Still's music has a homespun quality, but it is as varied as his own background of Scottish, Irish, American Indian and Negro ancestors. He tries to avoid repeating himself ("after all, an architect wouldn't want to design the same kind of house all the time"). Making movie music (at $250 a day) ceased to interest him because he felt that he had to do "my work in my own good time, and in my own good...