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Still a Giant. Off the field the friendly, homespun ex-plowboy showed a financial sagacity rare among ballplayers. He earned up to $80,000 a year from the Indians, and on the side coined money from half a dozen other business ventures, even had himself incorporated (Ro-Fel Inc.) in the state of Ohio. He also slipped gracefully into the role of solid citizen, last year headed Ohio's polio-fund drive...
...want our boys going to Korea as you did," says Dad), picnicked on the lawn with ex-Mayor of Philadelphia Joseph Clark, trundled a huge bag of groceries (packed mostly with wadded paper) from his car to the front porch, where he sat down, delivered a homespun talk on the high cost of living, ending with Nancy arriving to reclaim the forgotten groceries ("You were a big help, Guv!"), bantered farm problems over the back fence with Estes Kefauver, cavorted about a well-clipped lawn with his dog Muldoon (who chewed the lapel off a soundman's jacket). Said...
Regional Readings. Came the weekend, and so, too, came Estes Kefauver, fresh from a triumphant homecoming in Madisonville, Tenn. (where he expressed his homespun concern that "bigness is encroaching on Main Street"). The Keef's arrival in Libertyville prompted a new decree by Jim Finnegan: henceforth, Estes will be welded to Adlai with a hyphen, thereby assuring the proper identity of the Stevenson-Kefauver "team." This week teammates and staff climbed aboard a chartered DC-7, headed out on a week-long trip. Purpose: 1) to take regional readings from politicos in the Southwest, Northwest, Middle West...
...Homespun Web. Against this grimly mirthful background, plodding, modest Warren Shaw ("Nobody's a worse speaker than I am") announced against Hall, despite the tradition that Kansas nominates its Republican governors for a second term. With tradition and the labor vote behind him, Fred Hall was far from worried. But labor had its mind mostly on the Democratic primary (see below), hardly at all on Hall: industrial Sedgwick County (Wichita) gave Shaw 3,500 more votes than Hall, Shawnee County (Topeka) went to Shaw by 3,200. The final unofficial vote: Shaw 156,300, Hall...
Brook Watson and the Shark was Copley's only real contribution to European art. Actually the work of his London peers (Romney. Gainsborough. Reynolds, West) corrupted Copley's homespun realism. To compete in such fast and fashionable company, the old dog learned a pathetic array of new tricks. He kept on painting industriously until his death at 77, but his ice-clear eye gradually veiled, his granite-firm hand practiced soft flamboyance, his powers slipped away like spirits bored with too much worldliness, sick of success...